{"id":3599,"date":"2024-04-26T12:31:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/ring-home-security-customers-will-get-refunds-over-security-lapse-claims\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T12:31:13","slug":"ring-home-security-customers-will-get-refunds-over-security-lapse-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/26\/ring-home-security-customers-will-get-refunds-over-security-lapse-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring home security customers will get refunds over security-lapse claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Biden administration is sending out $5.6 million in refund payments to certain Ring home security system customers after the company settled a federal complaint accusing it of security lapses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In a statement this week, the Federal Trade Commission said it would be sending out\u00a0117,044 payments via PayPal to affected customers as compensation for claims that Ring allowed employees and contractors to access consumers\u2019 private videos. The agency accused Ring in 2023 of failing to implement proper security protections, enabling hackers to take control of consumer accounts, cameras and videos.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"\">In a statement sent to The Associated Press, Ring, which was purchased by Amazon in 2018, said that bad actors took emails and passwords that were \u201cstolen from other companies to unlawfully log into Ring accounts of certain customers.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It said it promptly addressed the situation by notifying any customer \u201cexposed in a third-party, non-Ring incident\u201d and taking action to protect impacted accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Many of the violations alleged by the FTC predate Amazon\u2019s acquisition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ring did not immediately address the FTC\u2019s allegations of employees and contractors unlawfully accessing footage, The Associated Press said. Amazon has previously said it disagreed with the FTC\u2019s claims but that it was eager to \u201cput these matters behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">The FTC said customers who have not already been contacted about a refund or who have questions about their payments should contact the refund administrator, Rust\u00a0Consulting, Inc., at\u00a0\u00a01-833-637-4884,\u00a0or visit the FTC website to\u00a0view frequently asked questions\u00a0about the refund process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is sending out $5.6 million in refund payments to certain Ring home security system customers after the company settled a federal complaint accusing it of security lapses. In a statement this week, the Federal Trade Commission said it would be sending out\u00a0117,044 payments via PayPal to affected customers as compensation for claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}