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Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information

posted by mrpg on Monday April 16 2018, @07:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the 1/38 dept.

MrPlow writes:

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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.

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  • (Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Monday April 16 2018, @08:05PM (6 children)

    by AnonTechie (2275) on Monday April 16 2018, @08:05PM (#667776) Journal

    Wasn't this similar to the plot from the movie Oceans 13 ??

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  • (Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Monday April 16 2018, @08:19PM (3 children)

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Monday April 16 2018, @08:19PM (#667784)

    Oceans 13 Degrees? But that'd kill the fish.

    • (Score: 2) by looorg on Monday April 16 2018, @08:33PM (2 children)

      by looorg (578) on Monday April 16 2018, @08:33PM (#667788)

      Think Celsius. Fish should be fine at that, possibly not tropical aquarium fishes but fish in general.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @09:17PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @09:17PM (#667801)

        I tried to get the fish to think Celsius but I don't think I got through to them.

        • (Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:08PM

          by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 17 2018, @01:08PM (#668028) Journal
          I'm going to revert back to Oceans 12.2 until they fix the bugs in this version.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by edIII on Monday April 16 2018, @08:42PM (1 child)

    by edIII (791) on Monday April 16 2018, @08:42PM (#667791)

    Tangentially related, but almost exactly similar to the real life plot that had prodigious amounts of CC data stolen from Target via their HVAC controllers.

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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @12:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @12:34PM (#668011)

      They should've used the new secure Micro$oft IoT...

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