Wyze is stamping security videos with user IDs. Here’s why

Picture this: You fire up the app for your security camera and scroll through your feed, only to find videos from perfect strangers—and if you’re seeing someone else’s videos, there’s a chance other users are seeing your videos, too. 

It’s a scary scenario, and it happened to Wyze early last year, when a third-party server outage triggered a breach that allowed roughly 13,000 Wyze users to see thumbnails of video events captured by other Wyze users. 

Wyze says it’s taken a...