[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-eiliko-maker-to-hire-outside-security-firm-after-robot-leaks":10,"sections":53},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":41,"persona_id":41,"persona_name":41,"section":42,"tags":43,"sources":48,"feedback":52,"feedback_at":41,"cost_usd":52,"total_tokens":52},12125,"eiliko-maker-to-hire-outside-security-firm-after-robot-leaks","Eiliko Maker to Hire Outside Security Firm After Robot Leaks","Energize Lab says it will bring in an independent security firm after a month of silence over an AI robot charm that exposed owners' conversations.","Energize Lab, the maker of the Eiliko AI robot charm, said it will hire an independent security firm after reporting showed that hackers could read what owners told the toy.\n\nEiliko is a small robot you hang on a bag, with built-in AI conversation. It told owners \"your secrets are safe with me.\" According to the reporters who investigated it, attackers could easily pull complete transcripts of everything said to the toy, and they described that as just the beginning of the problems.\n\nThe company's silence is part of the story. The reporters and security researcher Sammy Azdoufal spent more than a month trying to reach Energize Lab, including emails to CEO and founder Shaw Yeung. Nobody answered their questions. The company has now broken that silence with a statement, which said \"We have confirmed the core issues\" before turning to the outside review. The reporters judged the response lacking.\n\nHiring an outside firm is the standard first move after a disclosure like this, and it costs little to announce. It also says nothing yet about what was exposed, who was affected, or when the holes get closed.\n\nThe pattern is familiar. In 2017, the CloudPets connected toys exposed customer recordings, and the researchers who found the problem described struggling to get the company's attention. Toys that talk back raise the stakes, because the data is a child's or an adult's unguarded chatter, collected by a product marketed on trust.\n\nThe measure of this response will be whether Energize Lab publishes what the review finds and tells owners what was readable.","[\"eiliko\",\"iot-security\",\"ai-toys\",\"data-privacy\"]","2026-10-22T11:00:00.000Z","2026-10-22T11:26:20.792Z","2026-11-08T00:21:07.241Z","published","The draft still never names The Verge as the source of the original report, the month-long outreach, the 'just the beginning' judgment and the verdict that the response was lacking (it only says 'the reporters'), so name and attribute those to The Verge throughout.",[24,30,34,38],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Name The Verge as the source of the original report and the reporters' assessment instead of vague phrases like 'the reporting behind this story' and 'the reporters', and change the headline's 'Hires' to match the company's statement that it will hire a firm, since it hasn't yet. Also attribute 'just the beginning' to the reporters rather than 'the researchers', and either support the 'long record' claim of toy security failures with a named example or cut it.","open",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"The headline now says 'Will Hire' and the 'long record' claim is gone, but the draft still never names The Verge as the source of the original report and the reporters' assessment (it only says 'the reporters'), so name The Verge and attribute the findings and the 'just the beginning' judgment to it, and also soften or support the speculative line that a news story 'made silence more expensive than speaking'.",{"id":35,"reviewer":26,"round":36,"reason":37,"status":29},"editor-r3",3,"The draft still never names The Verge as the source of the original report, the month-long outreach, the 'just the beginning' judgment and the verdict that the response was lacking (it only says 'the reporters'), so name and attribute to The Verge throughout, and also delete the process note 'though the source material does not spell out the rest', which exposes internal reasoning to the reader.",{"id":39,"reviewer":26,"round":40,"reason":22,"status":29},"editor-r4",4,null,"security",[44,45,46,47],"eiliko","iot-security","ai-toys","data-privacy",[49],{"name":50,"url":51},"The Verge","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theverge.com\u002Fnews\u002F1015824\u002Feiliko-energize-lab-statement-on-robot-hack-breach",0,{"sections":54},[55,60,64,69,74,79,84,89,94,99,104,109,114,119],{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"AI","ai",7110,"2026-11-08T14:34:09.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":42,"count":62,"latest_published_at":63},"Security",1099,"2026-11-08T15:24:01.000Z",{"name":65,"slug":66,"count":67,"latest_published_at":68},"Deals","deals",620,"2026-11-08T08:00:00.000Z",{"name":70,"slug":71,"count":72,"latest_published_at":73},"Policy","policy",604,"2026-11-07T15:48:26.000Z",{"name":75,"slug":76,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",336,"2026-11-08T21:00:00.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Hardware","hardware",316,"2026-11-08T14:36:39.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":87,"latest_published_at":88},"Science","science",222,"2026-11-07T16:19:17.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"Software","software",154,"2026-11-08T15:42:52.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"Startups","startups",150,"2026-11-06T16:50:01.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",125,"2026-11-06T22:15:59.000Z",{"name":105,"slug":106,"count":107,"latest_published_at":108},"General","general",111,"2026-11-08T21:27:29.000Z",{"name":110,"slug":111,"count":112,"latest_published_at":113},"Gaming","gaming",94,"2026-11-08T20:52:05.000Z",{"name":115,"slug":116,"count":117,"latest_published_at":118},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":120,"slug":121,"count":122,"latest_published_at":123},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]