The Intercept reported last week that Ring "provided its Ukraine-based research and development team virtually unfettered access to a folder on Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service that contained every video created by every Ring camera around the world.”

"This would amount to an enormous list of highly sensitive files that could be easily browsed and viewed. Downloading and sharing these customer video files would have required little more than a click,” the Intercept explained, adding that "the video files were left unencrypted,” and the "Ukraine team was also provided with a corresponding database that linked each specific video file to corresponding specific Ring customers.”

Ring also reportedly provided similar access to "executives and engineers in the U.S.” allowing "unfiltered, round-the-clock live feeds from some customer cameras, regardless of whether they needed access to this extremely sensitive data to do their jobs.”

An unnamed source told the Intercept that if an engineer "knew a reporter or competitor’s email address, [they] could view all their cameras,” and claimed employees joked around by spying on their co-workers’ home cameras.

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