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Suspicious notification from Nighthawk app "Hello Test"
I've just gotten a notification from my Nighthawk app on my android device, which read "Hello Test". This happened a short period of time after I had updated my firmware from my mobile app. Prior to ...
I had 2 of these this morning that fired off around 2am, the same "Hello Test" message. I also updated firmware (after receiving that) and enabled 2 factor authentication on my account.
Maybe it was supposed to be an in-app notification that new forget was available, that didn't work properly (some bad test code left from development of the app maybe?)
Maybe it was supposed to be an in-app notification that new forget was available, that didn't work properly (some bad test code left from development of the app maybe?)
After seeing some more responses in another thread, it seems that a lot of people have gotten these notifications as well. Someone mentioned it might have just been a bug, rather than any security issue. Unfortunately no response from Netgear yet, so we'll have to wait and see.