Amazon’s Ring unit has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that its doorbells illegally spied on users.

The Federal Trade Commission revealed in court documents Wednesday that at least 55,000 U.S. customers were the victims of 2019 hacks targeting Ring, the Amazon-owned home surveillance camera company.

NEW YORK -- Amazon and its Ring cameras were slammed with a $5 million class-action lawsuit claiming that the products are too vulnerable to hacking. The lawsuit comes after several Ring users ...

Amazon's Ring camera is marketed as a safety device, but a new government lawsuit claims the company gave its employees and contractors "unfettered" access to personal videos and failed to protect ...

Amazon bought California-based Ring in February of 2018 for a reported $1 billion.. The company also Wednesday settled a separate suit brought on by the FTC for $25 million relating to its ...

A Tennessee family, which is also part of the suit, said it was targeted by a hacker who used its Ring cameras to spy on and harass an 8-year-old girl. The family said the hacker shouted: "I'm ...

In one case, a hacker taunted an 8-year-old Mississippi girl from her room, and in another, a Florida man was harassed with racial slurs.

Amazon and its Ring cameras were slammed with a class-action lawsuit claiming that the products are too vulnerable to hacking. ... Amazon for $5M after hackers found spying on, ...