It has been reported that millions of Amazon Echo 1st generation and Amazon Kindle 8th generation are susceptible to an old WiFi vulnerability called KRACK that allows an attacker to perform a man in the middle attack against a WPA2 protected network. Using this attack, bad actors can decrypt packets sent by clients in order to steal sensitive information that is sent over plain text. While the WPA2 wireless connection of this network has been compromised by this attack, it is important to note that any encrypted traffic sent over the wireless network will still be protected from snooping.
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