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Motorcycle Gang Busted for Hacking and Stealing Over 150 Jeep Wranglers (bleepingcomputer.com)
4 points by daviddumenil on June 1, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Is having your VIN displayed a security risk now? These thefts could have been prevented if the VIN wasn't visible; not saying it wouldn't have been possible just a bit more difficult.


Actually the VIN isn't the problem. The problem is either a malicious dealer with access to the Jeep replacement keys database in Mexico, or Jeep running an insecure database (which I doubt) that allowed the gang to connect and search the data they wanted.


they would still need the vin to get the correct key, right?




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