Hackers are usually associated with something bad, as they represent people who are doing unlawful activities motivated by financial gain, protest, information gathering (spying), and are often monitored and even arrested. But if you hack the website of Bayern Munich, you are in contention to get a signed shirt from one of the club’s icon – Thomas Mulller! 🇧🇷🔴⚪️ Brazilian hacker and Bayern fan Daniel Martins broke into FC Bayern’s systems. However, ‘Ghost’, as he is known, did not try to harm the club. Quite the contrary: He alerted the Germans to the security breach and as a gift received a signed Bayern shirt of Thomas Müller. pic.twitter.com/toXZ6MHL7i— Bayern & Football (@MunichFanpage) September 19, 2022 This unusual information appeared in the German media but the reason why Daniel ‘Ghost’ Martins did it and even reported his findings were because of the pure love he had towards Bayern Munich, his favorite club. Martins is an expert in information security and opted to check the website of his beloved side to ‘somehow help the team’. He quickly found that there were configuration issues, and that confidential data including financial information was at risk of being exposed.“As soon as I found the fault, immediately, at dawn, I made a report and sent it to them. They took a while to fix it and didn’t even respond to me at first. ‘But a journalist from Globo Daniel Mundim saw this fact and helped me get in touch with them. Successfully. They corrected it, and as a way of thanking me they sent me a shirt signed by the club’s biggest idol, Thomas Muller’ Martins told The Sun. Tuchel’s shadow leaning over Nagelsmann’s uncertain Bayern futureThe young hacker even went on to explain what he actually found out on the website. “I explored, and found a vulnerability of the ‘information disclosure’ type, which roughly speaking is a kind of information leak due to bad configuration. Basically it occurs when a site unintentionally reveals confidential information to its users. Depending on the context, sites can leak all kinds of information to a potential attacker” explained Martins. ##NAJAVA_MECA_6660711##In the end everything finished on a positive note for both club and their fan. He got the shirt, they got the valuable information regarding security threats and everybody was happy. Apart from Bayern’s programmers, who are managing the club’s website.
