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March 18, 2010

Disgruntled auto employee hacks database, electronically disables 100 cars

Wired's Threat Level blog has a fun, eye-opening story of a disgruntled employee coming up with a creative way to get back at his employer. The 20-year-old guy was clever -- but not smart. Read how he got busted.

More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

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That is absolutely hilarious:)

Cheers,

Jason

Posted by: Jason | May 15, 2010 2:50 AM

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About Gus G. Sentementes

Gus G. Sentementes (@gussent on Twitter) has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 2000. He's covered real estate, business, prisons, and suburban and Baltimore City crime and cops. He was one of the first reporters at The Sun to use multimedia tools and Web applications -- a video camera, an iPhone -- to cover breaking news. He hopes to cover Maryland geeks and the gadgets and Web sites they build, and learn -- and share -- something new every day.

Gus has a wife, a young daughter and two feuding cats. They live in Northeast Baltimore.

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