Starbucks’ WiFi Was Hijacking Customer’s Laptop To Mine Cryptocurrency
A user, named Noah Dinkin recently revealed in a Twitter post that Starbucks' free in-store WiFi in Buenos Aires was secretly hijacking customers' laptops to mine cryptocurrency. The hijack was revealed on Dec. 2 when Stensul CEO Noah Dinkin noticed a 10 second delay while connecting to the public WiFi at a Starbucks cafeteria in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
After a little research, he found out that customers who were trying to access the free WiFi were having their electronic devices infected with a malicious code which was mining cryptocurrencies. After the post went viral, Starbucks did apologize for the mishap, but after several customers exposed to the hijack.
How did they do it?
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