Division of local police to crimes in the sphere of high technologies has detained 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez (Omar Ramos-Lopez), a former employee of the company Texas Auto Center. Police believe Ramos-Lopez used for his crime web interface of a special system which is normally used car dealer to remind owners of unpaid bills. Although the account Ramos-Lopez was annulled a month ago, when he was fired from the Texas Auto Center on redundancy, the hacker
has decided to take revenge on the employer, having broken into the account of one of my colleagues.
System Webtech Plus, which used Ramos-Lopez for his tricks, supported by Pay Technologies. To use this system, sellers set a car dashboard is a special device that accepts commands from the control center at the frequency of pager network. To command such a device can be remotely, via a special secure Web site. With this system, the seller can remotely turn off the ignition, or to include periodic beep horn - it should remind the customer about late payment. The developers have stressed that the system is in any case have not stopped riding car.
The first claim of the perturbed customers began to arrive in Texas Auto Center in late February this year. Many customers had to call the tow truck or off the battery terminals to turn off the alarm. Also, many people did not get to work because of the remote ignition is turned off in his car. The flow of claims has stopped, when the Texas Auto Center employees to change passwords for all current accounts in the system Webtech Plus. Police requested the system logs from the company Pay Technologies, and then tracked by IP-address Ramos-Lopez, who accessed the Internet through the channel, AT & T.
As it turned out during the investigation, Ramos-Lopez initially chose for revenge customers by name. Then he gathered the data base for 1100 buyers who purchased a car with a device Webtech Plus. Turn off the ignition and the inclusion of an audio signal in overtime, he served in alphabetical order.
Interestingly, the representatives of the company Pay Technologies have been surprised by reports on the inclusion of signals in the night. According to them, activate this feature the system allows only from 9 to 21 hours. However, this could affect the time difference between the place where the data center Pay Technologies, and Texas, where there have been vexing for the company event. Also, representatives of the Pay Technologies, stated that this is the first in 10 years of case where the function of remote car immobilizers used for other purposes.
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