In prison, hackers can still steal more than $ 200,000 through a tablet without an Internet connection

A group of 364 inmates in Idaho state (USA) have "allied" with each other to plan to hack the JPay tablet equipped and stolen by the prison in the amount of nearly $ 225,000.

This tablet is provided by JPay, an American company that provides services to help prisoners play games, study, watch movies, listen to music, email, video chat about families and use some services. Other services, even if not connected to the Internet.

According to Business Insider, this tablet JPay exists a security hole and prisoners have exploited it to transfer money to their JPay account. A total of $ 225,000 was stolen, with 50 prisoners transferred to their accounts more than $ 1,000 and the highest amount an account received was nearly $ 10,000. Currently, JPay has just recovered $ 65,000 and the credit card feature on the system has also been suspended.

The prison representative said that in order to exploit the vulnerability in the system and implement this money-stealing behavior, hackers must have a lot of knowledge about JPay system and require a combination of other operations from the prison. multiply. Therefore, this hack is intentional.

It is still unclear which prisoners exploited the vulnerability on JPay to transfer money and how up to 364 inmates know the vulnerability.

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