Hackers create hotel master keys that can access millions of rooms
Millions of hotel rooms are vulnerable to hackers after researchers found a technique to create master keys that can open rooms. Researchers from the cybersecurity firm F-Secure discovered the flaw with key cards used by some of the world’s biggest hotel chains, including Intercontinental, Radisson and Sheraton Hotels and Resorts. Tomi Tuominen and Timo Hirvonen from F-Secure began investigating the vulnerability 15 years ago after a laptop belonging to one of their colleagues mysteriously went missing from a hotel room.
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