Hackers use new tactic at Austrian hotel: locking the doors
Fully booked hotel decides to pay ransom of two bitcoins or US$1,800
New York Jan 31
THE ransom demand arrived one recent morning by email, after about a dozen guests were locked out of their rooms at the lakeside Alpine hotel in Austria.
The electronic key system at the picturesque Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt had been infiltrated, and the hotel was locked out of its own computer system, leaving guests stranded in the lobby, causing confusion and panic.
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