Pirates Hacked Shipping Firm's CMS To Plan Attacks, Find Valuable Cargo (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 2, 2016 @05:08PM from the they-learned-nothing-from-the-wire dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Verizon's most recent Data Breach Digest includes a curious hacking case. Apparently a group of sea pirates have hired a hacker who uploaded a Web shell to a shipping company's CMS that allowed them to download cargo inventories and ship routes. They then used this information to attack ships, equipped with a barcode reader (and weapons of course), searching specific crates, emptying all the high-value cargo, and making off with the loot within minutes of launching their attacks.

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Re:Unarmed ships are helpless. by excelsior_gr · 2016-03-02 18:58 · Score: 3, Insightful

Get Gatling guns on one ship, the next pirate crew will show up with an RPG. If I was a sailor on one of those ships, there would be no chance in frozen hell I would fire back on a pirate to protect some rich dude's shit on board that's probably insured anyway. You can be as gun-ho about this as you want from your armchair, I'm throwing my hands in the air and letting the pirates go with the cargo.