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17th April 2024 Issue no. 701

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Hotel lock hack still being used in burglaries

Months after lock firm's fix photos have been released by Arizona police of two suspects alleged to have robbed a 27-year-old girl's hotel room using the Onity lock-hacking method at the Coast Hotel in Phoenix.

More than nine months after Onity announced a fix for a security flaw that allowed anyone to gain access to millions of hotel rooms in seconds, that lock-hacking technique seems to be thriving-and thieves are still using it to perform dozens of burglaries with hardly a trace.

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