WiFi in hotels provide security risks to users

Insecure WiFi systems installed at hotels across the UK could be hacked.

Following its claims that WiFi is no longer a secure method of connection last week, Global Secure Systems has warned that insecure WiFi systems installed at hotels across the UK could be hacked with embarrassing consequences, as has happened with the high-end Thompson hotel chain in the US.

Weekend reports in the US suggested that a hacker has threatened to release a number of embarrassing emails sent and received by guests and staff at the high-end Thompson hotel chain there. GSS' managing director David Hobson claimed that the same thing could happen in the UK, as many hotels leave their WiFi networks open - i.e. without a password - for guests to use in their rooms. He said: “This potentially leaves the systems open to hacker incursions, and could end up with guests' emails being plastered all over the Internet.”