Hide your kids, hide your wife  or at least the baby monitor. That's the lesson one Houston couple learned the hard way, when their baby monitor was hacked and used to verbally harass their 2-year-old daughter.

Marc and Lauren Gilbert told ABC News that the voice of a creepy man was coming from the device, which was also equipped with a camera.

According to the report, on Aug. 10, Marc Gilbert heard strange noises in his daughter Allyson's room while she was sleeping. As he and his wife entered, the strange voice began calling the girl an "effing moron," telling her to "wake up you little slut," before shouting expletives at the parents.

"At that point I ran over and disconnected it and tried to figure out what happened," Gilbert told ABC. "[I] couldn't see the guy. All you could do was hear his voice and [that] he was controlling the camera."

Neither the girl, who is deaf, nor the Gilberts' 3-year-old son Ethan, heard the commotion or woke up.

While the police were not involved, Gilbert did call his Internet service provider, who suggested he change the monitor's passwords. Moving forward, it doesn't matter, since Gilbert said he is leaving the gadget permanently unplugged.

The incident shook the family, and surfaced concerns that similar situations had occurred without their knowledge.

"It's quite possible that this had been going on more than one day," Gilbert said. "Security vulnerabilities exist."

Indeed they do: The cyberpunk managed to highjack the monitor, scan the room via the robotic camera eye, and make lewd comments, all from a remote location. But this isn't the first case of "smart home" hacking. Earlier this month, reports surfaced that the Japanese-made Satis smart toilet is susceptible to cyber-attacks via a hard-coded Bluetooth PIN vulnerability.

Apparently anyone within range of the abode can gain access to its control functions, paranormally haunting the toilet's automatic lid, built-in sound module, air purifier, or in-bowl spotlight.

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