A Houston couple was horrified when they heard a strange voice they did not recognize coming from the baby monitor they had watching their two-year-old daughter.
ABC News reports that on Aug. 10, Marc Gilbert, who was cleaning up in the kitchen after his birthday dinner, suddenly heard odd noises coming from daughter Allyson’s bedroom. He and his wife Lauren entered the bedroom and knew something was wrong immediately. They said they heard someone with a British or European accent making lewd comments with the baby monitor.
The voice called Allyson, who was sleeping, an “effing moron” and told her to “wake up you little slut.” Then, when the hacker saw the parents come in, the person started cursing at them ,even calling Gilbert’s wife a b****h.
“At that point I ran over and disconnected it and tried to figure out what happened,” Gilbert recalled. “[I] Couldn’t see the guy. All you could do was hear his voice and [that] he was controlling the camera.”
WAFB reports that Gilbert thinks the person hacked his router as well. The person had seen Allyson’s name since it was written above her bed and started using the name in the lewd comments.
Allyson could not hear any of the comments because she is deaf. “Allyson was born deaf, so she has cochlear implants. Thankfully, we had them off, and she didn't hear any of it and she slept right through it,” Gilbert told WAFB.
Gilbert, who also has a three-year-old son, said that they will likely never use the device again. He didn’t call the police, but wants parents to be aware that this can happen.