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"One of Europe's top hotels has admitted they had to pay thousands in Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack their electronic key system" "Hotel
by cpncrunch 10y ago
"One of Europe's top hotels has admitted they had to pay thousands in Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack their electronic key system"
"Hotel management said that they have now been hit three times by cybercriminals"
"we had no other choice. Neither police nor insurance help you in this case."
Do they not see the problem here? Perhaps they should have paid the thousands of euros to a security expert to fix their crappy system, rather than paying the hacker to do the same thing again.
- dredmorbius 10y agoAt a few thousand Euro each instance, vs., say, EUR50k to EUR500k for a full re-specification and implementation of all hotel security systems, that's a bargain price. (Of course, they're also a piggy bank every time the hackers need cash.) (This assumes the hackers aren't, say, hotel management or employees skimming the operation themselves via hack threats, say, for money laundering purposes.)
- cpncrunch 10y agoNo they dont need to rebuild it. Just get the original developer to fix it if its a problem with the system. Or secure their network. Neither will cost anywhere near 50k.
- missbit 10y ago2 bitcoin. Whoa! steep!
- cpncrunch 10y ago4 times for a few thousand euros each time.