Hackers have got their hands on nearly 6,000 private videos of newborn babies and uploaded them to a video - sharing website , according to a Tuesday report by online news outlet Phoenix New Media . The videos were recorded by the Anhui Women and Children Health Hospital in Hefei , the eastern provincial capital , and were part of a project intended for parents to check in on their hospitalized children . The hospital posted a message to its WeChat public account on Monday in which they apologized to parents and said they had reported the incident to the police . That post has since been deleted . ;