Web Cam Hacked?

[Rockrose]

Good evening
I have this web cam it has worked fine for months but yesterday it started asking for a password and would not connect.
It has been suggested by a friend that perhaps it has been hacked, is there a techy who can help me. Please.

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[Buenchico]

Are you sure that the connection between the camera and the router hasn't been lost? (Press and hold the reset button for 10 seconds to re-establish a connection).

[Guilbert53]

This is a first time poster with a link to a product ion Amazon.

Could it be spam?

[Rockrose]

Thank you - when I try and log on it says on the app that the camera is online.

[Buenchico]

Did you set a password when you first configured the camera? (Most IP cameras now require you to provide a password before they can be used).

What's the actual make of the camera? (I can't find it from your link or by searching for the same model elsewhere). The maker's name should be on the camera somewhere, on the box it came in or can possibly be deduced from the name of the app that it uses.

[Rockrose]

The app name is YYP2P there was a password, I am ashamed to say it was the one I used for ease. I don’t have the box anymore.

[jno]

Guilbert, that's AB's standard abbreviation for any link to an Amazon product (whose URLs often stretch halfway to Mars). It isn't an actual recommendation, just a link to explain what Rockrose's talking about: if one hadn't been provided, someone would very likely have asked for one.

[Buenchico]

That's a generic app, that can be used with all makes of cameras.

If you can remember what the default password was, have you tried entering it?

If you can't remember what the password was then, if you can work out who actually made the camera, you might be able to find the default password here:
https://www.a1securitycameras.com/technical-support/default-username-passwords-ip-addresses-for-surveillance-cameras/

However your friend might well be correct. Websites such as shodan.io continuously scour the internet to find IP addresses which are associated with 'the internet of things'. (i.e. they look for indications that they're being used by security cameras or things like industrial control systems, rather than by computers). Those results are searchable by anyone who subscribes to the site but the IP addresses which they find are still useless to those subscribers unless they know the relevant passwords to go with them.

However, if a default password has been used, it can then be entered by anyone who's curious enough to see what's connected to that IP address, enabling them to take control of it (e.g. by viewing what a camera is showing and/or by changing the password to one of their own).

If you've still got the instruction manual for your camera, see if there's a way of resetting it back to the factory default. That will either restore the password that it came with or remove the password altogether. (In either case you should then be able to create, or change to, a password of your own, so that the problem doesn't happen again).

[Rockrose]

Yes I have entered the password as it’s on the bottom of the camera, will see if I still have the instructions. Thank you for your help.
If I did wrong by adding the link I apologise.

[Old_Geezer]

Suspicious lot :-)