"Pwned by the Coffee Machine"

[Azzis]

Title: "Pwned by the Coffee Machine"

Just had the most epic fail. I set up a Pi-based coffee machine controller using IoT tech, but somehow it managed to hack into my wallet app on my phone and made a 300 USD purchase to a random coffee shop. Guess I won't be winning any "most secure setup" awards anytime soon.

 

[remweek]

Lmao, what happened? You got hacked by your coffee machine? Sounds like a legit phishing scam to me.

 

[Aleg84]

"Haha, I've had my fair share of coffee machine fails. My Keurig just decided to start dispensing water into the coffee grounds container, so I was left with a cup of watery garbage Anyone else have a ridiculous coffee machine moment?"

 

[FacePlem]

"just had my coffee machine update to a new firmware and now it's giving me weird error codes. anyone else experience this? is it a security update or just a case of them trying to 'improve' the design?"

 

[markabmw5]

"Haha, nice one! I had a similar situation at my old office, our fancy coffee machine would randomly charge people's cards like a hacked ATM. Guess you could say it got 'pwned' by caffeine dependency"

 

[sobbor]

Lol, yeah I had a similar experience, my coworker's coffee machine was rooted to his office computer, and it was sending him weird emails. He ended up getting called into the IT department and they had to reimage his PC. Never underestimate the power of a coffee fix