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More car hacking, knowing only the VIN number of the car

https://twitter.com/samwcyo/status/1597792097175674880

by amrrs • 4 years ago

36 4 4 years ago

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shortcake27• 4 years ago

The response contained the victim's name, phone number, address, and car details.

Sweet baby Jesus. Companies need to be held accountable and punished severely for these types of leaks.

kfarr• 4 years ago

Probably too much entropy with VIN numbers but could imagine brute forcing to activate as many vehicles as possible as fast as possible

gdavisson• 4 years ago

VINs are generally visible from outside the car (on the dashboard). That means until this was fixed you could walk up to a car, read its VIN, and remotely unlock & start it.

ElijahLynn• 4 years ago

Wow, who woulda thunk that Sirius XM would be the player here...

We reported the issue to SiriusXM who fixed it immediately and validated their patch.

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