Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads

Tom's Hardware 2026-10-25

Summary:

A hacker reverse-engineered his own Samsung TV and found alarming spying activity, including code that used connected devices' microphones to listen to users.

Link:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hacker-finds-own-samsung-tv-collecting-scary-amounts-of-user-information-and-gets-banned-by-openai-for-cyber-abuse-tv-runs-an-ai-model-that-collects-audio-screenshots-and-plenty-of-other-user-data-for-ad-targeting

From feeds:

Cybersecurity by kevin ยป Tom's Hardware

Tags:

cybersecurity

Authors:

editors@tomshardware.com (Jhet Borja) , Jhet Borja

Date tagged:

10/25/2026, 14:19

Date published:

10/25/2026, 06:00