This article is both very intriguing and a little scary.  Please take a moment to consider the implications of relying on IoT devices in your daily life and not properly managing and rotating those default credentials.

Kudos to Bruce Schneier and his blog post for the original heads up.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/rash-of-in-the-wild-attacks-permanently-destroys-poorly-secured-iot-devices/