Rabbit R1 security issue allegedly leaves sensitive user data accessible to anybody

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Rabbit R1 security issue allegedly leaves sensitive user data accessible to anybody
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Mariella Moon has been a night editor for Engadget since 2013, covering everything from consumer technology and video games to strange little robots that could operate on the human body from the inside one day. She has a special affinity for space, its technologies and its mysteries, though, and has interviewed astronauts for Engadget.

finding a security issue with the company's code that leaves users' sensitive information accessible to everyone. In an update posted on the Rabbit ude website, the team said it gained access to the Rabbit codebase on May 16 and found "several critical hardcoded API keys." Those keys allow anybody to read every single response the R1 AI device has ever given, including those containing the users' personal information.

The API keys they found authenticate users' access to ElevenLabs' text-to-speech service, Azure's speech-to-text system, Yelp and Google Maps on the R1 AI device. In a tweet, one of Rabbitude's membersthat the company has known about the issue for the past month and "did nothing to fix it." After they posted, they said RabbitIn a statement sent to Engadget, Rabbit said it was only made aware of an "alleged data breach" on June 25.

Rabbit's R1 is a standalone AI assistant device designed by Teenage Engineering. It's meant to help users accomplish certain tasks, like placing food delivery orders, as well as to quickly look up information like the weather. We gave it a pretty low score in our, because we found that its AI functionality often didn't work. Further, users can simply use their phone instead of having to spend an extra $199 to buy the device.

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