Bank hacked because of 10$ router without firewall

[Lethal Seraph]

1 hour ago, Mooshi said:

It always amazes me that large businesses even bother using such low end equipment when millions of customers are at stake. 

Profit margins, it's always corporate greed and profit margins. They only 'upgrade' their standards when lawyers and insurance is involved.

[Clanscorpia]

8 hours ago, huilun02 said:

They probably also use a simple padlock for the front door, and vault combination of 1234

You forgot that the key is under the front mat

[Lurick]

7 minutes ago, Clanscorpia said:

You forgot that the key is under the front mat

Key? Are you mad?!?! That's far too much security, they just turn the padlock so it looks locked from a distance by don't actually clamp it shut, sheesh.

[VerticalDiscussions]

LOL. Whoever is managing the bank, should let themselves be eaten by a tiger aha.

[That Norwegian Guy]

@ParanoidWallet never have the username of the OP been more apt

[Coaxialgamer]

wow... just wow

[MMKing]

Even if the 10USD router was not the root cause of the problem, it displays a mentality which is incompatible with the security requirements one would expect from a bank handling hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars.

[NateGSR117]

that just a fail, couldn't spend extra money for even a consumer grade product with a firewall.