Hotel safes are far less secure than guests are led to believe. Widespread use of default codes and other issues mean that it is relatively easy for criminals to get at hotel guests' valuables, security firm G DATA warns.
Researchers of G DATA reached their conclusions after buying a very common model from Amazon and investigating how it worked.
With a little technical effort, the safe can be hacked and cleared out of valuables in minutes, they said.
In addition, hotel room safes' magnetic card readers offer criminals the option of using skimming to access the data on the card before selling on this information to other crooks through underground forums.
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