'Wake up, mommy's looking for you': Creepy hacker accesses SCARLETT JOHANSSON'S baby monitor and speaks to frightened tot at night
Hollywood Actress, Scarlett Johansson, revealed how a sick hacker gained remote access to her baby monitor, then spied on her baby daughter and spoke to her as she lay in her cot.
The child's terrified parent only realised what was happening when they heard a stranger's voice coming over the device saying : "Wake up little girl, mommy's looking for you."
Scarlett dropped the monitor and found out its camera had been remotely hacked.
Her shocking discovery came after the three-year-old had been complaining that somebody was talking to her at night.
Technology experts are now warning parents that new baby monitors are at risk of hacking as many connect to the internet.
Worried mums and dads are being urged to change passwords and security settings to make it harder for sinister strangers to infiltrate their child's bedroom.
This is not the first time parents have found hackers remotely accessing baby monitors.
In November last year, hacked footage from baby monitors, webcams and CCTV systems in Britain were broadcast live by a Russian website.
And earlier this year a nanny described the terrifying moment she heard a stranger's voice from her baby monitor calling the little girl "cute.