https://www.hackread.com/ddos-attacks-on-apartments-heating-system/
Here is an example of how incorporating IoT into our everyday lives could have a crippling effect on us. An apartment building in the city of Lappeenranta in Finland, had its heating system hit with a DDOS attack causing residents to lose heat and hot water. Luckily on the day of the attack, the temperature was 20℉. Lappeenranta is known to have temperatures go as low as -25℉ in the winter.
What an interesting way for this apartment building management to get a wake up call to properly protect their systems. Also, I’m not sure if this should be considered as a luck when a heating system is compromised while it’s 20℉ outdoors. Maybe they don’t consider 20℉ as cold in Lappeenranta, Finland as the U.S.’ northeastern region.
That situation would have been even worse if the temperature was considerably lower as pipes could freeze and Temps too cold could be potentially deadly. This situation shows that as the IOT begin to manage more important things in our lives cyber security becomes even more important.