In short
- Thousands of ring users reported suspicious registrations of 28 May, increasing the fear of a widespread hack.
- Amazon said the problem was caused by a backend bug that incorrectly displayed login data and device names.
- Users remain skeptical, especially because Ring recently re -introduced access to law enforcement via a new Axon partnership.
Amazon’s ring cameras became viral, and for all the wrong reasons, while users Tiktok, Reddit and X flooded with reports of suspicious registrations on their accounts.
Screenshots that are placed online showed unknown devices that have access to user accounts, which felt concern about a possible infringement in the Amazon home security network. All mysterious infringements took place on May 28, 2025.
Ring denied that a hack had taken place and blamed the issue in a status update for a backend update.
“We are aware of a problem in which information is displayed inaccurately in the control center,” said it. “This is the result of a backend -update and we are working on it to solve this. We have no reason to assume that this is the result of unauthorized access to customer accounts.”
Ring said that the devices shown were simply that users had logged in with earlier.
“The devices that customers see on the page with authorized client devices were used at a certain moment to log in to the customer ring account,” said a spokesperson for the Ring Decrypt.
“They may contain devices that they no longer own, devices for users with whom customers shared login details, and browser reports,” they said.
Of course that statement did not fly. Social media users pushed back on the claims of Ring and said that the aforementioned devices they had never had.
“Some people say in the reactions that it could have been a software update that all the old devices you had again recognized, but that is not logical because one of the aforementioned devices was a Chromebook that I have never had before,” posted a Reddit user.
“OMG! I have six unknown devices that were registered on May 28, 2025,” said another. “Two of them logged at 5:56 am, and the other four at 6:57 am. One is an iPhone 6 !! Absolutely not my phone, and nobody I know has a phone so old.”
“Absolute Bollocks with your ‘bug’, I don’t even know Derbhille, or is she still associated with our ring camera or family?” An X user wrote. “Just admit that you have been hacked and you are going to change this.”
Skeptics pointed out that the timing was suspected. Ring -founder Jamie Siminoff returned as CEO on July 17, a day before the mysterious registrations on user accounts started to appear.
According to a report from Business insiderSiminoff wants to return to Ring’s original mission to ‘make neighborhoods safer’. Part of that strategy is said to include the reversing of the limits imposed by Amazon for access to the police into camera images.
Anyway, if you have a ring device, it is simple enough to secure. Check the app control center for unknown devices, reset passwords and engage in two-factor authentication and end-to-end coding.
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