Watch your connected thermostat, it might open the doors to your bank account

Hackers stole a casino’s high-roller database hacking through a thermometer placed in a fish tank of the casino. The hackers accessed it and were then able to find their way across the network and up to the cloud to the valuable database. Source Businessinsider reports on April 15, 2018.

Nowadays a lot of devices and everydaytools are connected (IoT), from thermostats to home appliances, vehicles and all kinds of other items embedded with technology that enables these objects to connect and exchange data. Even the most innocuous device – like a thermometer – may offer ground to an attack aiming to steal important information.

 

Originally published on Technethics on April 2018