Hackers have yet to hit a 4 star hotel in Austria. They took control of the system making it impossible to create new keys. The establishment had to pay them $ 1600 to get everything back in order.
There are more and more objects connected to the Internet and in spite of the improvement of the security systems some pirates take a malain pleasure to find again flaws. This time, it was the locking system of a 4-star hotel in Austria that was targeted by cybercriminals.
The Seehotel Jaegerwirt in Austria has been hit by several cyber attacks, but the nightmare for hotel managers began when the hackers entered the system managing the electronic keys. The hotel could not create new keys, and he had to pay roughly the equivalent of $ 1,600 in bitcoin so that the hackers would stop their mischief.
A ransom of $ 1600 in bitcoin
"The hotel posted full with 180 reservations, we had no choice. Neither the police nor the insurance will help you in this case, "explains Christoph Brandstaetter, general manager of the hotel. Clients were not trapped inside their rooms as the pre-pirated electronic keys were still functional. Only the management could no longer create new ones and had to yield to the blackmail of the criminals.
After this story, the general manager of the hotel made a radical decision. "We plan to renovate the building to restore the old locks using real keys. Just like 111 years ago at the time of our grandfathers. "
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