A TEEN hacker is claiming to have hacked 25 Tesla automobiles and says he can management them from his house.
The 'hacked' automobiles are stated to be all around the world and the 19-year-old thinks he can management varied capabilities on them.
The German teen is known as David Colombo and his Twitter bio says he is a "IT Safety Specialist & Hacker".
Colombo says he is advised Tesla's safety staff concerning the hack and they're investigating.
Now we have additionally reached out to Tesla for remark.
The hacker says he may entry 25 Tesla automobiles in 13 completely different nations.
He tweeted on January 10: "So, I now have full distant management of over 20 Tesla’s in 10 nations and there appears to be no method to discover the homeowners and report it to them…"
Silicon Republic then reported that the teenager had really handle to hack much more Tesla automobiles.
The 19-year-old says the record of what he can management on the automobiles is "fairly lengthy".
He claims he can do issues like emotely disable the sentry mode safety on these automobiles.
He additionally stated he may open home windows and doorways, begin keyless driving, flip the lights on and management the music.
He tweeted: "I feel it’s fairly harmful if somebody is ready to remotely blast music on full quantity or open the home windows/doorways while you're on the freeway.
"Even flashing the lights continuous can probably have some (harmful) impression on different drivers."
The hacker is not blaming Tesla’s infrastructure for the flaw although.
He stated it is to do with the homeowners of the automobiles.
He says he'll launch extra particular particulars as soon as the flaw has been mounted and it will probably't be exploited by anybody else.
A lot of safety researchers search for flaws in Tesla platforms as a result of the corporate pays them as much as $15,000 in the event that they spot a major challenge that must be addressed.
Tesla runs its bug bounty programme by way of BugCrowd.
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