Ubiquiti, a manufacturer of feature-rich networking hardware, is the latest victim of a security breach that puts customer data at risk.
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Ubiquiti is among the companies that ask (or force) customers to create an account when setting up new hardware. Other new routers, like Amazon’s Eero and Google’s Nest Wifi, make cloud-based accounts central to the experience and can’t be used without a connection.
Their popularity has encouraged more traditional router companies, such as Netgear and Linksys, to follow suit with their own cloud-hosted or app-based options. In most cases, however, these are still optional.
“The leak just means their data is now in the hands of a party other than the vendor,” Dong Ngo, editor of Dong Knows Tech and former router reviewer for CNET, said in a direct message on LinkedIn.
