364 Idaho Inmates Hacked Their Prison Tablets for Free Credits

guest · Jul 27, 2018

364 Idaho Inmates Hacked Their Prison Tablets for Free Credits
July 27, 2018
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Idaho prison officials announced yesterday in a press release that they've identified 364 inmates who have exploited a vulnerability in their prison-issued tablets and have used it to assign nearly $225,000 worth of digital credits to their tablet accounts.

The five facilities are the Idaho State Correctional Institution, Idaho State Correctional Center, Idaho Correctional Institution-Orofino, South Idaho Correctional Institution and the Correctional Alternative Placement Plan, all five operated by the same company —MTC Inc..
Tablet vulnerability has been fixed
The hacked tablets have been used at low-security level prisons across the US for a few years now. They've been offered through a partnership between CenturyLink and JPay.

Spokespersons for both companies said the vulnerability inmates exploited was identified and fixed. Officials from the Idaho Department of Correction (IDC) said there was no loss of state funds as a result of the hack, as inmates transferred only JPay-managed (fictitious) digital credits to their accounts.
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