“His robot was vulnerable to being hacked from afar, and Ecovacs hadn’t done anything about it, despite being warned back in December 2023.”
A reporter sat in a park outside a Brisbane office and took over a $2,500 Ecovacs Deebot X2 over Bluetooth with a phone. The vacuum’s camera warning only plays when the Ecovacs app is watching, so the people in the room got nothing. Ecovacs first told users not to worry excessively. The X2 fix is promised for November 2024, almost a year after the warning. Ecovacs sold a webcam on wheels and left the door open.