Alexa Recorded and Sent a Couple's Private Conversation to Someone Without Them Knowing

A woman in Portland reported that her Amazon Echo recorded and sent a conversation with her husband to one of the company's employee's in Seattle, which Amazon has confirmed. The employee informed the woman to "Unplug your Alexa devices right now. You're being hacked," despite not being hacked at all. The voice-controlled virtual assistant misunderstood a conversation about hardwood floors as four separate sets of commands that ultimately ended with the device recording the talk and sent it to c...