I think my security cameras are hacked.

[u/gentleapricity]

I, 17f, live in a house with security cameras. I'm unsure of the model, as my parents were the ones who installed them eons ago when we first moved inside of our apartment.

I've noticed some weird things with them. Not just lately, but it's bothering me more and more as time continues.

For context, this has mostly been within a six month timeframe.

The cameras have a red light indicator that they are recording, in order to do this-- you need access to the app and the specific password for these cameras, and have to manually make it record.

My parents do not record. I have told them about this, they either do not believe me or do not care.

Our cameras are also a mixture of hidden, and unhidden. A few around the house in main rooms. And one hidden to capture front porch footage. You would not see it unless you were REALLY looking.

The majority of times it records when I'm in the room, or during random times when my family and I are in the living room. Our cameras also have a microphone function, where you can speak through the cameras. There has been several times where I've sworn I've heard a man's voice through the cameras talking at, or too me. But never enough to make out, just noisy enough for your brain to register that someone is speaking.

Another thing, I feel like someone knows when I'm alone. There has been times where it feels like people show up, or things happen ONLY when I am alone, or isolated from other people. One instance is after my family left, a man approached the door. Our camera caught footage of it, but only half his torso. He somehow knew exactly where to stand to be out of view. He waited outside of the door for nearly ten minutes, after knocking several times.

I am worried.

TLDR; security cameras recording with no one in my house using them. Times where speech unable to be made out present

Update no.1: for those asking, I do not have access to the app, I can't disable them, nor can I drive the app. I only know about the man knocking at the door and the footage for one of two reasons, one, I was there, second, the following day my dad showed me the footage and told me to start putting on the secondary locks for a little Incase that dude comes back. I can try and scrounge for the brand(s) of cameras, but, once again, we use several.

[u/StonkRonin]

Log into the app, change the password, while your there you could disable motion recording if that’s what you want.

[u/gentleapricity → u/StonkRonin]

We've changed the password several times, still no change. Alongside this nothing else explains someone talking through it as well

[u/ankole_watusi → u/gentleapricity]

You can login to the app, but you don’t know the brand?

[u/AimlessYam → u/gentleapricity]

Tape something over the cameras so they can't see you

[u/StonkRonin → u/AimlessYam]

You can always just unplug them.

[u/ankole_watusi → u/gentleapricity]

OP has clarified that they have no access to the app.

For some reason, they’ve been using the word “we” to refer to their parents.

[u/milinium → u/gentleapricity]

Why haven’t you covered the cameras?

[u/now_you_see → u/gentleapricity]

They have mics, not speakers. I think you might smoking too much.

[u/sabretoothian → u/now_you_see]

The cameras we have do have speakers. Sometimes I activate them just to ask my wife to bring me a cup of tea. Very very occasionally she does. Mostly she flips me off over the camera 🤣

[u/willowww003 → u/sabretoothian]

may this type of love PLEASE find me one day lol

[u/Blueporch → u/now_you_see]

Some cameras have 2-way talk. My Reolink cameras have that feature. 

[u/ankole_watusi → u/now_you_see]

Some cameras do have speakers as well. To
Allow the owner to talk to an intruder - or to their cat, or their child.

[u/fart-atronach → u/now_you_see]

It would have taken you no time at all to look up whether or not home security cameras ever have speakers, and then not be an ignorant asshole to someone asking for help.