Amazon confirmed that a couple’s Echo recorded their private conversation and sent it to another person – all without their knowledge or verbal consent.

In this case, Alexa’s eavesdropping was not a hack pulled off security researchers; it was an “unlikely” chain of events which ended up as a privacy fiasco for a Portland couple.

The couple had an Echo in every room of their “smart” house, using Alexa to control the lights, climate control and security system.