Modern Sleep Number beds are marvels, tracking your sleep, breathing, and heart rate and even maintaining the mattress temperature to your liking. One computer engineer has also figured out how to root the bed’s control hub to allow local control. Along the way, he also made a discovery that may trouble you: a backdoor-like connection that allows Sleep Number to remotely connect to your bed’s hub at will without your knowledge.
Dillan Mills discovered all this after Sleep Number asked him to turn off a Homebridge plugin he’d developed to deactivate some of the bed’s features and run smart home automation if its sensors detected nobody was laying on the mattress. Since the plugin had grown in popularity and polled Sleep Bed’s servers every five seconds, it significantly strained the company’s public servers.
