Micros

2016: Cracking

In August, 2016 Oracle announced cybercracking of the Micros payment system used in payment terminals by bank cards. Under the threat there were thousands of shops and hotels worldwide.

Oracle sent to the clients users Micros the letter in which announced detection of a malicious code in the software and asked to change the passwords used at login.

Software of Oracle for payments by cards it is infected with a virus: under the threat of 330 thousand restaurants, shops and hotels

The American IT giant said that all data of payment cards are ciphered. At the same time it is not specified whether hackers could decrypt information or use a virus for theft of money. Cracking did not concern corporate network and other Oracle services (including cloud), assured of the company.

Existence of the malware in Micros payment terminals to the first was announced by the blogger Brian Krebs publishing articles about cyber security. According to him, behind the attack there is a Russian hacker grouping which is referred to as Carbanak Gang which managed to crack thousands of computer systems of Oracle, including Micros and also the online portal of a customer support Oracle allowing to solve far off problems, work-related bank terminals. Krebs noted that participants of Carbanak Gang specialize in cracking of banks and shops.

According to the cybersecurity expert, first in Oracle considered that an incident affected only a small amount of computers and servers. Nevertheless, as showed the further analysis, malefactors compromised over 700 systems.

Oracle did not report who stands behind this attack and what damage from it can be. Meanwhile, losses can be huge: at the time of acquisition of Oracle of Micros Systems company in 2014 (the cost of the transaction was $5.3 billion) technologies of the last were used more than in 330 thousand restaurants, shops and hotels in 180 countries of the world.^[1]

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