Your headphones may be tracking you – how a Google Fast Pair exploit lets hackers spy in seconds

A man walking down the street wearing headphones with waves coming from them.

• Attackers can hack your speaker’s microphones and track your location
• The vulnerability is found in Google’s Fast Pair feature
• Researchers say the flaw could affect millions of devices

Google’s Fast Pair feature is meant to let you connect your headphones and speakers to your Android or ChromeOS device with just one tap. Yet now it seems that the price of that convenience is a security vulnerability that could leave millions of devices open to hackers and eavesdroppers.