Google says Nest cam terror warning from North Korean was hoax, not a hack

Nest Cam security cameras and the Nest Hello video doorbell can increase home security, but it's important to know if your house has enough Wi-Fi bandwidth to support them. For one Northern California family it was a terrifying experience: an emergency warning that came through a Nest surveillance camera of three intercontinental ballistic missiles, apparently from North Korea, headed straight to Los Angeles, Chicago and Ohio. Laura Lyons told the East Bay Times that the warning, "sounded completely legit, and it was loud and got our attention right off the bat.…It was five minutes of sheer terror and another 30 minutes trying to figure out what was going on." The warning proved to be a hoax, and according to Nest's parent Google, it wasn't a hack at all but rather the result of a compromised password. "Nest was not breached," Google said in a statement emailed to USA TODAY.