Hackers once stole Las Vegas casino high-roller database via its fish tank, said Nicole Eagan, the CEO of cyber defense company Darktrace, on April 12, 2018, at the WSJ CEO Council Conference in London.
The hackers were able to breach the thermostat in the fish tank, which was used to control the temperature and quality of the water remotely. They then found the high-roller database, and then pulled that back across the network, out the thermostat, and up to the cloud. The name of the casino wasn’t revealed.
Hackers are increasingly targeting “internet of things” (IOT) devices to find their way into corporate networks.
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