The Tesla Model S has been hacked

Posted on 16-07-2014 at 23:13 by ricardo – 18 Comments”

That’s what you get if you merchandise is frequently labelled as an ” iPad on wheels’. Enough whizzkids who then would like to your soft – and hardware come rattle.‘

Not entirely coincidentally, was recently at the SyScan conference in Beijing in the amount of $ 10,000 awarded to the first that a Model S was able to hack it.

The company Qihoo 360 Technology is claiming that they have succeeded. The Chinese say the Model S on the techconferentie distance to have ‘hacked’, and then the horn, locks, and lighting could be controlled. Also the sunroof open and close was not a problem. The method used was not described, so we do not know the extent to which the claims made are truthful, but on Weibo – the Chinese version of Twitter – were a number of images posted.

Tesla has stated that they have the results of the white hat hacker will research and possible vulnerabilities in the software can adjust. Opposite Bloomberg stated that they have no problem that there is a hackwedstrijdje about the Tesla Model S is organized, but we hope that the researchers justified their findings will cope.

It seems that Qihoo is simply a Tesla-user account has been cracked, after which you can via the iOS or Android app, several features of the Model S allows you to operate remotely. Such a vulnerability in the account security has recently already been featured on Devices.

Gallery: Tesla Model S

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