Ecovacs, a Chinese company with a somewhat sketchy history of security breaches, found itself at the centre of the chaos. The company’s robot vacuums, which come equipped with cameras and speakers, ha

Ecovacs robotic vacuums are quite easy to hack, according to cybersecurity researchers have been warning about the dangers for quite some time.

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Ecovacs blamed a “credential stuffing event” for Deebot X2 Omni robot vacuums that were commandeered to spew hateful words.

Multiple ECOVACS Deebot X2 robot vacuums were hacked in cities across the US. The hackers used the robots to spew racial slurs.