Almost every Wi-Fi in the world can be avenged, researchers say.

If the offense, known as “Krack”, is used, then there can be access to almost anything sent to the network. Any device that has been using the same network potentially has been hit by this problem, reports The Independent”, broadcast Periscopi.

This could be misused to steal sensitive information such as credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails, photos and so on”, said security researcher Mathy Vanhoef, whose work has been assessed by the American government.

“Sulmi works against all modern Wi-Fi networks, he said.

Vanhoef also noted that nearly every computer, phone, even a refrigerator could be hit by the attack. <x)

And almost anything that has been sent over an affected network can be read. Some technologies like HTTPS make it much harder to read what is being sent through a network, but this is also “anaconcensed in a number of disturbing” situations, Vanhoef wrote.

Android phones are probably the most affected by hacker attacks.

The “Krack” attack is working using an app known as “the extension of the hand” that a Fi network and a device give to each other when the latter wants to join. Both usually decide for an encryption key, which means that each device will be able to read the data only if it has that key.

But researchers have found that the process may be designed, giving the victim a key that is already in use and thus allows someone to decrypt and read any of the messages being sent to the network.

“Today, all modern Wi-Fiʹi networks use the specific type of “hand deregulation” that can attack”, writes Vanhoef.

“This means that all these networks are affected by several variants of hackers”, he added./Periscopi/