Was Ring hacked on May 28th?
Here's what the company says about the alleged incident.
There’s a TikTok video going around claiming your Ring account was hacked—and it’s racked up millions of views. The video shows how to check your Ring app for “unauthorized” logins, all tied to May 28, 2025. Sure enough, I checked mine and saw the same thing: a bunch of devices listed under that date.
Naturally, I got curious—and suspicious.
Ring has required two-factor authentication since 2020, which makes it very hard for someone to access your account without your permission. Even I have trouble logging in sometimes. So while it looked suspicious, I didn’t buy the idea that someone was secretly watching my videos.
So, I reached out to Ring. Here’s what they told me:
“We are aware of a bug that resulted in prior login dates for client devices to be incorrectly displayed as May 28th, 2025, and device names to be incorrectly displayed as ‘device name not found.’ This was the result of a back-end update, and our teams are working on a fix. This was not caused by any unauthorized access to customer accounts.”
In other words, it’s a display bug—not a hack.
Now, if you’ve had multiple phones, shared access with family, or reinstalled the Ring app, all those logins show up. Why they’re all tied to that same May 28 date is still unclear, but it doesn’t mean someone’s spying on your cameras.
So here’s what you can do:
Open your Ring app.
Go to Control Center → Authorized Client Devices.
Remove any devices you no longer use or recognize.
That’s it. Your account is probably fine—and no, no one is watching your videos.
