Former Auto Dealer Employee Remotely Disables 100 Cars 
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 10:05AM
Keith Erwood in Business Continuity, Car dealer, Cars Disables Remotely, Computer Security, Cyber Security, Disaster Recovery, Hacker, Hacker, Risk Management, payteck, texas auto center

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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