“Hacking Nissan Leaf was extremely simple’

Posted on 25-02-2016 at 11:47 by nicolasr – 19 Comments”

It seemed foolproof to a Leaf at a distance to take over.

Now you can drive, of course, no Leaf, you are all car enthusiast and loves especially of internal combustion engines. The thicker the better of course. I know, but just to be sure, however, this message, if you are on the verge of yet a Leaf to to purchase. It can be dangerous.

An Australian hacker has the app of Nissan know to crack causing them all sorts of systems of the Leaf could take over. That report various (inter)national media. In this way they could distance the air-conditioning on and off, and they could also with the heating of fooling around. Not a problem you would think, but in the case of the Leaf indeed. That thing runs on batteries, and with the air conditioning and/or heating at the highest position, the radius greatly reduced. And that was not so very big. Too bad if you have a important appointment you can come by this joke. Or worse, if you go with the Leaf to go to the hospital because your wife needs to give birth or something. It can all happen.

The hacker, a certain Troy Hunt, used to say that a proxy server which he is a so-called man-in-the-middle attack could carry. With the help of the identification number of the car, the VIN number, he was then fairly easy access to the systems that are normally only available through the app of Nissan to drive. Me says not so much, but it worked. Because from Australia, he could drive a car in England affect.

Nissan is aware of the leak and the app will immediately be taken offline. Everything will be put into operation if the quantity is repaired, says Nissan, the Netherlands. And that is bad news for the Leaf riders in our country, because according to Nissan, almost all of the brunt of the bad software. However, it is not known whether there is also real misuse of the leak, or that mr. Hunt was the only one that anything has been done.

Previously a same kind of joke ever pulled with a Jeep, incidentally, but are so intense as that, it was this hack. Do you want to for that matter, the precise explanation of how Troy this has geflikt, here you can all see.