Seemingly random events occuring

[Andrew_Rowe]

This type of thread comes up every once in awhile lately and it is usually the result of the an insecure instance of openHAB being available on the internet. I forget the exact details (can someone help my memory?) but I think it is opening a port or using the cloud connector with a default password. There is a website that shows open connections.
Do you have your openHAB instance exposed to the internet? If so, how? Does the openHAB administrative user have the default password?
I’ll try to find one of the other threads that discuss this

ok, here is one from last year

Unexpected events happen randomly

The last few times this was reported it turned out that the users had opened a port in their internet router to provide direct access to openHAB. So anyone in the world could type in their IP address and fiddle around with switches. Checkout Shodan to see how many openHAB instances are directly open to the internet! How have you configured remote access to openHAB, if at all?

here is another with link to website that shows unsecured instances

OH randomly updates items

Just to make sure - as others were hit by this - is your OH instance exposed by intent or not to the internet by opening the OH port on your router ? Check on shodan.io if your ip address and your OH instance is listed there ( as long as you have a static ip address ).