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A 19-year-old hacker claims to have taken over more than 20 Tesla vehicles in 10 countries through a software vulnerability.
David Colombo, who is based in Germany, shared the feat on Twitter saying the fault does not fall on the Elon Musk-founded company, but on owners of the Teslas.
The flaw is said to have been found in third-party software that allowed Colombo to unlock doors and windows, start the cars without keys and disable security systems.
He also tweeted the vulnerability lets him use the internal Tesla cameras to spy on the driver.
Colombo told DailyMail.com that ‘it is not a vulnerability in Teslas infrastructure but indeed caused by the Tesla owners and a third party,’ he said, confirming it is a third part software that is at fault.
‘I’m in contact with the Tesla Product Security Team as well as the third party maintainer to coordinate disclosure and get the disclosure and get the affected owners notified as well as a mitigation/patch for the vulnerability rolled out.’
The issue with the software is how it stores the Tesla owner’s information that is needed to link the cars to the program.
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A 19-year-old hacker claims to have taken over more than 25 Tesla vehicles in 10 countries through a software vulnerability
In the tweet thread, he states it is possible for him to remotely unlock the doors and start driving the Tesla.
However, he is unable to ‘intervene with someone driving (other than starting music at max volume or flashing lights).’
