Ring customers get $5.6 million in privacy breach settlement

The FTC is sending $5.6 million in refunds to about 117,044 Ring customers after alleging the company failed to implement adequate security and access controls, which allowed Amazon employees, third-party contractors, and attackers using credential stuffing and brute-force methods to access private video feeds and hijack accounts; the settlement includes PayPal payments and follows claims that MFA and internal access protections were insufficient.