Baby monitors are pretty advanced these days. Some parents no longer rely on the walkie-talkie standard alone; nowadays many have cameras in their baby's room. Vigilant parents use this to check on their kids from afar, especially during late night wake-up calls. What if, however, someone used this technology to watch your baby from their own home?

It was around midnight when Ohio mother Heather Schreck noticed something was wrong.

"All of a sudden, I heard what sounded like a man's voice, but I was asleep so I wasn't sure," the mother told Fox19.

Heather went to her handy dandy cell phone, which also provides her with a video feed of the bedroom of her daughter, 10-month-old Emma. To her shock, the camera was moving, seemingly on its own.

"About the time I saw it moving, I also heard a voice again start screaming at my daughter," the mother recalled. "He was screaming, 'Wake up baby. Wake up baby.' Then just screaming at her trying to wake her up."

Enter Adam, Heather's husband. Upon stepping into Emma's room, the camera abruptly moved to look at him.

"Then it screamed at me," Adam said. "Some bad things, some obscenities. So I unplugged the camera."

Apparently, the voice and camera movement were all done by a baby monitor hacker. According to Heather, someone hacked their Foscam IP Camera "from outside."

"You do kind of feel violated in a way," Adam said.

"I was just absolutely shocked to see somebody could get into my house so easily," Heather added.

Apparently, the occurrence wasn't a phenomena. Wireless cameras, just like other "Internet-connected" devices, are a target for hackers, according to Dave Hatter, an Infinity Partners solutions expert.

"It's not just that they want to get in and mess with your camera," Hatter explained. "More sophisticated hackers know they can use this as a launching off point to get into your network and potentially steal your ID or use your network to launch malicious attacks against someone else."

So how can you make sure a creep isn't watching your baby?

Hatter suggests making sure your Wi-Fi and camera passwords are different. Also, check your camera manufacturer's website to ensure sure your camera is running the most recent updates. Often, these updates do not automatically upload on devices. The Schrecks' camera was not up to date.

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