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Thousands of cheap electronics being sold online on Black Friday could leave us exposed to cyber criminals, a new report shows. 

Consumer group Which?is warning of a flood of smart products sold on online marketplaces, wizards welcome doormat including Amazon, eBay and AliExpress, in the run-up to the annual sales event, which falls on November 26 this year.

Which?found more than 1,800 smart tech products for sale that use apps with ‘inadequate security protection’, which could leave users exposed to hackers or ‘infringement of their data privacy’.  

Offending products — which include smart doorbells, wireless cameras, alarms and tablets — tend to be cheap imitations of reputable brands. 

Smart products by established brands tend to be more expensive — for example, some cheap doorbells sell for around a third of the price of a Ring smart doorbell — but Which?claims they’re still not worth their pricetag due to security risks. 

Some of the flaws Which? found would be made illegal under new legislation currently being planned by the UK government. 

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