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Hacked Baby Monitor Incident: Disturbing Voice Disturbs Parents

Calendar Aug 14, 2013 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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It was a terrifying experience for the parents of two young children after their baby monitor was hacked. What the hacker did next is even more disturbing. The story has a creepy factor. The father in northwest Harris County says he and his wife heard a detached voiced saying sexual things to their two-year-old daughter and it was coming from her room.

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