Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely

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Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely

"More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

Police with Austin's High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership's four Austin-area lots."

Careful when driving , if you car starts honking out of control...you know what's up .

 

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Ex-employee accused of remotely disabling 100 cars

"However, according to Wired, Wednesday police arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, whom they accused of having technical abilities that were put to resentful use.

Ramos-Lopez was laid off from the Texas Auto Center and, strangely all the cars that seemed to have suffered a dysfunction had originally been sold at one of the Auto Centers four dealerships.

The dealership said that more than 100 of its customers reported either a disabled car or hideously honking horn. So it reset the passwords for all of its employees' accounts. A police affidavit reportedly claimed that, having looked at access logs, the police traced the wicked behavior to Ramos-Lopez's AT&T Internet service.

Ramos-Lopez is accused of getting into the system by using another employee's account. Jim Krueger of Pay Technologies told Wired: ("He had retained a password, and what happened was he went in and created a little bit of havoc.")"

Not really hackers anymore...seems like some ex-employee wanted to show his skills .

 

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