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Chances are ... they probably already do with a good percentage of them.
Many home owners who spend money on cheap security camera setups either don't care or don't know about privacy settings or securing their devices to the public internet. And some security camera setups are just cheap Chinese knockoffs that it's probably easy to just hack many of them.
I bought a cheap Chinese no name camera a few years ago .... it worked great for a year, camera stopped working so I went searching for an answer with the company ... the company didn't exist any more and all their customers including me were left with none functioning cameras that no one could or wanted to fix.
Shodan.io is a goldmine of unsecured webcams and many other things.