About 3 million doors protected by popular key card locks are believed to be vulnerable to security flaws that allow crooks to quickly slip into locked rooms.
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Security researchers developed an exploit that targets various Saflok key card locks manufactured by Swiss security company dormakaba, which are common in hotels around the world, as well as multi-occupancy properties.
The researchers who worked on the exploit, dubbed "Unsaflok," said more than 3 million hotel locks in 131 countries are affected.
Lennert Wouters, Ian Carroll, rqu, BusesCanFly, Sam Curry, sshell and Will Caruana reported the dormakaba vulnerabilities in September 2022 and disclosed them this week.
