A year ago IT security investigator Sam Curry bought the Subaru Impreza from his mother. The only condition: you must have the vehicle hacked. He quickly discovered weaknesses with his colleague Shubham Shah. These made it possible to unlock the car, press the horn and start the engine – everything via access to distance. The successful hack only calls questions for Subaru owners.
It was especially disturbing that the two could read the location data of the car. You could not only see where the car was, but also where he went everywhere last year. The location data was so detailed that Curry was able to investigate the doctor’s doctor’s visits, the houses of his friends and even their parking space in front of the church. Curry and his colleague could have seen millions of Subaru vehicles around the world and could see a wake-up call for the entire industry in the hack. Vehicle data does not only collect Subarus …
Source: Krone
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