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Robot vacuums spewed racial slurs, obscenities after being hacked: Report

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68% Informative

ABC News reports hackers hacked Ecovacs Deebot X2s in several cities across the U.S. over several days earlier this year .

The outlet said the incidents happened in late May .

One man said he was watching TV when the robot started to malfunction and found out through the app that someone had gained access to the live camera feed and was able to control the vacuum remotely.

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58

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48

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62

Article tone

semi-formal

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English

Language complexity

48

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

possibly hateful

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not detected

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not detected

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short-lived

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