September 19, 2019 by www.cnet.com When Teemu Airamo moved into his company’s new Manhattan office in shared workspace provider WeWork, he had one overriding priority: to run a security scan on the building’s Wi-Fi network. After all, he shared a space with more than 200 companies also co-working in the Financial District hub and didn’t want anyone snooping around. It was May 2015, and Airamo’s digital media company was working with contracts and sensitive documents. He couldn’t afford to get hacked. So when he saw hundreds of other companies’ devices and financial records completely visible on the building’s network, Airamo was stunned. ”For me, it was pretty much, ‘Holy shit,'” he said. He recalled immediately going to the WeWork community manager and showing the security vulnerabilities affecting all the people in that building. ”I said, ‘Did you know that we can actually see all this?’ he recalled. “The answer was, ‘yeah, eh.'” More than four years later, and multiple attempts to contact WeWork, including its upper management, nothing has changed. Airamo knows this because he routinely runs Wi-Fi scans on the WeWork network and finds financial records, business transactions, client databases and emails from companies surrounding his office.CNET reviewed the scans, where 658 devices, including computers, servers and coffee… Read full this story
When Teemu Airamo moved into a WeWork office in Manhattan in 2015 , he discovered he could access hundreds of other companies ’ devices and data on the building ’s roof . He reported it to the company . More than four years later , after making numerous attempts to elevate the issue to WeWork ’s senior management , Airamo said nothing has changed . He routinely monitors WeWork ’s network and says he can view an array of confidential information belonging to other companies surrounding his office .