The company that sold cameras with ‘terrible’ security flaw has a new problem

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing much than $700,000 successful fines against Eken, a Hong Kong-based video doorbell shaper whose products were recovered to beryllium susceptible to hackers, for an unrelated rules usurpation discovered during the commission’s ongoing investigation.

The committee began investigating Eken aft Consumer Reports recovered successful February 2024 that its products, which are sold nether much than 10 antithetic marque names, had information vulnerabilities that fto anyone with a doorbell’s serial fig remotely entree images from its video feed. The products are sold nether marque names including Aiwit, Andoe, Bitepass, CutePanda, Eken, Fishbot, Gemee, Guggre, Luckwolf, Rakeblue and Tuck. Eken said successful April that it had since fixed the issues via a firmware update.

The probe into those vulnerabilities is ongoing, but the committee besides recovered that Eken violated rules requiring overseas companies that clasp FCC instrumentality certifications to designate a US-based cause liable for communicating with the commission.

As portion of its investigation, the FCC’s enforcement bureau sent a Letter of Inquiry to Eken’s US constituent of contact, an idiosyncratic located successful Colorado Springs, Colorado — but the code provided connected those forms has been inactive since 2019, according to the FCC. The FCC says Eken’s typical didn’t respond to letters sent via different means, including email.

“Providing a mendacious code for the designated cause connected 3 FCC applications constitutes 3 evident violations of FCC rules resulting successful 3 projected penalties of the maximum forfeiture,” the FCC said successful a property merchandise Thursday. The FCC is proposing fines adding up to $734,872.

The commission’s probe into Eken’s instrumentality is ongoing.