A hacker or hackers managed to use a smart aquarium to gain access to a casino, according to a security firm report.
According to CNN, the aquarium was used as an entry point, allowing the attackers to move through the network. Through the aquarium, they were able to send data to Finland before security firm Darktrace was able to stop them.
The name of the casino with the aquarium has not been made public, although the co-founder of the security company Darktrace, Dave Palmer, had mentioned something similar in an interview he gave last year:
We've seen "insider" hacks into data from heavily protected organizations by attacking digitally connected aquariums. Who connects their aquarium to the Internet? Well, it turns out that a lot of people do.
It is very likely that he was referring to some separate incident, as evidenced by the plural of "aquariums".
Palmer reported the story to Financial News London. He was referring to smart aquariums that were located in the lobby of a payments and transactions company. Someone was storing data in the aquariums' internal memory and then using their connection to move the data outside the building.
