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[....] Nicole Eagan, CEO of cybersecurity company Darktrace, revealed Thursday that a casino fell victim to hackers thanks to a smart thermometer it was using to monitor the water of an aquarium they had installed in the lobby, Business Insider reported. The hackers managed to find and steal information from the casino's high-roller database through the thermometer.
"The attackers used that to get a foothold in the network," Eagan said at a Wall Street Journal panel. "They then found the high-roller database and then pulled that back across the network, out the thermostat, and up to the cloud."
That database may have included information about some of the unnamed casino's biggest spenders along with other private details, and hackers got a hold of it thanks to the internet of things.
Source: Hackers exploit casino's smart thermometer to steal database info
(Score: 5, Funny) by pkrasimirov on Monday April 16 2018, @09:16PM (4 children)
The "s" in "IoT" stands for Security.
(Score: 5, Touché) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 16 2018, @09:45PM (1 child)
So, what's the "di" for in IdioTs?
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 4, Funny) by pkrasimirov on Monday April 16 2018, @09:53PM
Not sure, something about CxO [wikipedia.org] and "double digit growth".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @03:50AM
Yeah, IoT is a gamble and the house just lost...
On the other hand the Schadenfreude from the I told you so makes me want to laugh at these guys. However when I realize that the victims are not the clueless IoT idiots but the customers, this makes me sad.
This continuous stream of privacy scandals is making me sick. This must end.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:39PM
IoT is the suffix for Id.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.