At least 700,000 routers given to customers by ISPs are vulnerable to hacking

The final paragraph of the story has been corrected and reads as follows:

He disclosed some of his findings Wednesday at a security conference in the U.K. as part of a larger presentation about vulnerable SOHO embedded devices -- routers, network attached storage appliances, IP cameras, etc. The talk was focused on research which found that over 25 million SOHO devices are exposed to attacks from the Internet because of default credentials and other well known vulnerabilities.