'It's a hacker's paradise out there'

In what could have been the plot of a Hollywood heist movie, the hackers took great interest in the vast aquarium that a Las Vegas casino had installed in its lobby. The casino's owners thought that the huge fish tank was an impressive sight that helped create a classy ambience as people arrived. What they failed to realise was that the aquarium was a easy way to break into the casino's computer system, and the hackers pounced. For while the casino had protected its IT network with the usual firewalls and anti-virus software, staff forgot that the futuristic fish tank was connected to its system so that the water temperature and quality could be automatically monitored. So criminals trying to get their hands on the bank details of the casino's wealthiest gamblers were able to hack into the network via the aquarium.