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I am absolutely shocked that the initial encryption key is literally the md5sum of "ubnt".

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=MD5()&input=dWJudA

I wonder what the folks at HostiFi (cloud hosted UniFi controller software) might be thinking right now...

edit: Looks like they've seen it. Their response is here: https://twitter.com/_rchase_/status/1329949952408244231

Thanks for sharing our response. I expect this to be fixed by Ubiquiti, but it will probably take some time, so we have that mitigation process available for those interested.