My kid clicked a link in a game chat and our router got hit

My son was playing Roblox last Tuesday and clicked a link from another player that said it gave free Robux. Within an hour, our home Wi-Fi in Austin slowed to a crawl and our smart lights started acting weird. I had to factory reset our Netgear Nighthawk router and change every single password, which took me all evening. Has anyone else had to deal with something like this from a kid's game?

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miles58114d ago

Welcome to the IoT horror show.

joel_young14d ago

Wait, the smart lights started acting up too? That's a whole new level of creepy.