“This defendant, entrusted with safeguarding customers' homes, instead intruded on their most intimate moments," acting US Attorney Prerak Shah said in a statement. "We are glad to hold him accountable for this disgusting betrayal of trust.” While working for ADT, a home security organization that gives alarms, cameras, and locks. Aviles observed client homes where attractive women lived, prosecutors stated, then repeatedly gained access to their video feeds for sexual gratification. The technician abused the organization's policies by clandestinely adding his own email address to accounts on ADT Pulse, an application that permits clients to check distantly on their homes' surveillance cameras.
The federal charges against Aviles were recorded against him in October 2020, five months after various ADT clients filed lawsuits against the organization in association with the security breach. ADT, which is situated in Florida, is as of now confronting three federal lawsuits identified with the occurrence. The breach affected 220 clients who lived in Texas. As per the claims, ADT started to inform clients about the breach back in April 2020, disclosing to them that one of their workers had accessed client accounts for around four and a half years.
An ADT representative said the organization self-reported the occurrence in April 2020 on its site. "After we learned of the unauthorized access, we immediately took preventative steps to ensure this can never happen again, and we personally contacted each of our 220 customers who were impacted by this incident," the statement read. In the three lawsuits, the clients additionally asserted ADT attempted to get confidentiality arrangements while telling them of the security breach. In one case, a client said she was offered $2,500, as well as credit for monitoring services and upgraded equipment. When she refused, she alleged the organization increased their proposal to $50,000.
“We remain committed in our attempts to resolve all affected customer concerns,” ADT said in a statement. Meanwhile, Aviles could face as long as five years in prison for pleading guilty to computer fraud, prosecutors said.
