A luxury hotel in Austria found itself in a bizarre hostage situation recently when hackers managed to access its electronic key system and lock all the hotel guests in their rooms until the hotel agreed to pay a ransom to get its systems back.

According to The Local, the cyber lock-in happened on the first day of the winter season at the Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt, a 111-year-old, four-star luxury hotel that has a pool, lake views, and a state-of-the-art electronic key system that turned out to be something hackers could exploit.

On the first day of the winter season this year, hackers accessed the hotel’s IT system and shut down everything, including all the reservation info and the hotel’s electronic key system. Approximately 180 people were staying at the hotel that day, and many of them were locked in their rooms, while others were locked out of theirs.

The hackers wanted 1,500 euros in Bitcoin to release the hotel’s system, and the hotel decided to pay.
"The house was totally booked with 180 guests, we had no other choice. Neither police nor insurance help you in this case,” said managing director Christoph Brandstaetter.

After the hackers were paid, the system went back to working as it was supposed to. But Brandstaetter says the hotel is planning on replacing the hotel’s door locks with old-fashioned ones with real keys.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hackers-hold-entire-hotel-ransom-213915523.html

chai! i wish to be a hacker......thats cool money.

kingk:
chai! i wish to be a hacker......thats cool money.

It's one thousand five hundred euro



Not 15,000.00


I'm suspecting it's a kid with an exploit a real blackhat will demand upwards of 200k

He already hacked the hotel yet he only asked 1,500euros for damn bitcoin... Smh


His head is NOT correct.

1,500 He is mad

HtwoOw:


It's one thousand five hundred euro



Not 15,000.00


I'm suspecting it's a kid with an exploit a real blackhat will demand upwards of 200k

Maybe it's these Romanian, Polish, Pakistani, or Vietnamese hackers. Trust me they are extremely capable and good, but they are not greedy... Unlike Nigerians. They do it for the fun of it and for the love of it.

Olodo Nigerian yahoo/wire boys make millions of dollars using these kinds of guys.

Well, on a side note, this just brought a smile to my face. Crime is not good, agreed, but there is something about this kind of crime that is somewhat tolerable by me, rather than the old fashioned robbery/kidnapping situation that inflicts too much trauma and misery.

Cheater will be like mogbe Baba Kola mapa mi