It follows a product recall from the Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou after its web cameras were used in a massive web attack last week.
The attack knocked out sites such as Reddit, Twitter, Paypal and Spotify.
The Chinese government blamed customers for not changing their passwords.
Its legal warning was added to an online statement from the company Xiongmai, in which the firm said that it would recall products, mainly webcams, following the attack but denied that its devices made up the majority of the botnet used to launch it.
You will like Chinese products, or else.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @05:58PM
The master of the Reality Distortion Field never threatened to sue individual customers.
Instead, he claimed those having problems were "holding it wrong".
Watch and learn.