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A year ago , two surety researchers discovered vulnerabilities in a Subaru internet portal that allowed them to hijack car controls and track driver locating data , according to aWired report .
Subaru has since fixed the vulnerability after the researchers — Sam Curry and Shubham Shah — reported their finding to the Japanese car manufacturer . But the two discourage that finding and pay off security flaws in car with connected engineering only arrange a bandage on a more pervasive security issue .
The researchers in this guinea pig cut a test automobile through a vane portal for employees , which not only allowed them to do things like remotely start the car , but also to track the positioning of the vehicle in real prison term and see a year ’s Charles Frederick Worth of location data .
“ Whether somebody ’s cheating on their married woman or getting an abortion or part of some political chemical group , there are a million scenario where you could weaponize this against someone , ” Curry told Wired . As long as employees have access to such data , that information is vulnerable to evolving method of hacking .
The researchers also note that this is an industrywide problem . The same web - base flaw also feign other carmakers like Acura , Genesis , Honda , Hyundai , Infiniti , Kia , and Toyota .
