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.”

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