Child Tells Parents Somebody Is Talking To Him At Night. What Mom Finds Is Horrifying.

Right now we live in the age of technology. Everything we could ever want is practically ready at our fingertips. Have a question? Never fear, for Google is here! Need to get something, but it’s not in your city? Not a problem, you can just order it online and it will show up in nearly no time. We’re at the point where cars are even driving themselves. Everything is just becoming much, much more convenient for humanity, but is that necessarily a good thing? 

“Can you hear me? Great, it’s working.”

Baby monitors used to be walkie-talkies, but now they’ve become much more. You can connect to them through your smartphone and listen, or even control the camera that accompanies it. This is is extremely convenient due to the fact that you can actually see your baby while he/she sleeps, and you can also do it all from the device that you likely carry around at all times.

The problem arises when people, particularly those with malicious intent, take control of these devices. Since baby monitors are able to connect to smartphones, they’ve become significantly easier to hack. This Washington family thought they were doing themselves a service by purchasing a more complex baby monitor, but they didn’t expect what happened next…