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Mar192010

Former Auto Dealer Employee Remotely Disables 100 Cars 

DateFriday, March 19, 2010 at 10:05AM | |

A disgruntled former employee of Texas Auto Center car dealership remotely disables cars by using a web-based immobilization system from Payteck.

Using the web-based system the former employee, Omar Ramos-Lopez, allegedly disabled the cars or made their horns honk continuously, though the dealership disputes claims that it occurred after 9:00 PM local time.

Though the business maintains that they closed Omar's account when he was laid off, he allegedly used another persons account to log into the system to cause havoc of the course of a five day period. 

The trouble stopped after the accounts for the entire business were reset and then police traced IP address from access logs back to Omar's system.

 

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    Source: Ex-employee accused of remotely disabling 100 cars
    by Chris Matyszczyk at CNET on March 17, 2010
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    Source: Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely
    by Kevin Poulsen at Wired on March 17, 2010
    Texas Auto Center began fielding complaints from baffled customers the last week in February, many of whom wound up missing work, calling tow trucks or disconnecting their batteries to stop the honking. The troubles stopped five days later, when Texas Auto Center reset the Webtech Plus passwords for all its employee accounts, says Garcia. Then police obtained access logs from Pay Technologies, and traced the saboteur’s IP address to Ramos-Lopez’s AT&T internet service, according to a police affi
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