The $300 per night Seehotel Jaegerwirt hotel in Austria has been hit by several cyberattacks, but it became a true nightmare scenario when the hackers got into the electronic key system. The hotel was unable to create new keys, and the hotel paid roughly the equivalent of $1,600 to get their systems back up and running.
“The house was totally booked with 180 guests, we had no other choice. Neither police nor insurance help you in this case,” the hotel’s managing director, Christoph Brandstaetter, told an Austrian news outlet.
Contrary to earlier reports, guests weren’t trapped inside their rooms, which is probably a move that the hackers are currently figuring out how to pull off. The hotel says that they’re only coming forward because they know that their hotel is not the first to see this kind of hacking occur. And they want more attention paid to the kind of blackmail that’s becoming more frequent in the hospitality industry.
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