LONDON: Alarming rings have been raised after significant hike in webcams’ hacking which forced British government to issue warning to the firms for imposition of hefty fines if customers’ online privacy found compromised.
The United Kingdom (UK)’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Federation of Small Businesses have warned British firms for imposition of fines over failure to protect their customers’ webcams, DailyMail reported.
British businesses were likely to be fined over failing to protect their webcams against hackers but what security measures have been taken in other countries.
The British media reported that the crackdown started after a DailyMail investigation report on Sunday that revealed how foreign criminals were hacking into webcams to spy on British offices and shops.
However, if British firms would now face hefty fines if they found in breach of the Data Protection Act if they failed to protect cameras with secure passwords.
The action plan was finalised just after revelation that hackers had gained access to a webcam provided by a nursery in the North West of England that enabled parents to monitor their children there which was live streamed to an Eastern European website.
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