SINGAPORE - Crafty hackers infiltrated a casino in North America a few years ago in the most improbable of ways - by accessing a high-tech fish tank.
The tank was remotely monitored so the temperature could be adjusted automatically but that gave the cyber criminals a back door, allowing them to gain access to data and send 10GB of it to a device in Finland.
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