FTC settled charges with Asus, where the hardware manufacturing company agrees to:..Undergo Independent Security Audits Once in 2 years, for the Next 2 Decades. The company could end up paying a civil penalty of up to $16,000 for each violation. Asus routers put the home and corporate networks of hundreds of thousands of consumers at risk. The cloud service offered by Asus namedandalso suffered from the critical vulnerabilities that allowed an attacker to access your Hard Disk remotely from any part of the world, resulting in complete system compromise.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/02/asus-router-security-hack.html