Guardzilla: Guardzilla stealthily shuts down, leaving all of its cameras useless

The company conveniently forgot to tell both its customers and retailers of the fact. What you need to know Guardzilla is closing its doors. The lack of its cloud infrastructure means that all of the company's cameras are left defunct. The company had attempted to shut its doors without first informing customers. Guardzilla has gone out of business, as Consumer Reports found out this week. The home security company was already the recipient of negative publicity due to a range of security flaws in its products, but the firm tried to one-up itself this month by shutting down its cloud infrastructure without first informing its customers. Given how reliant they are on the cloud, this means that almost all of the now-defunct company's cameras are now near-useless. Users had been noticing connectivity issues for weeks but were met with silence from the company's support teams. The reason, it turns out, is that the company had gone out of business, and has only this month posted a m...