Dock-free electric scooters Lime-S by California-based bicycle sharing service Lime are parked for rent in Paris, France, April 18, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
Someone’s been up to some mischief in Brisbane: Eight Lime scooters had to be removed from the city’s streets after the scooters’ internal files were hacked to play offensive sexual messages.
The company’s electric scooters, which are designed to play an audio recording when locked and unlocked, were hacked so that users were confronted with inappropriate messages when starting their trip in the Australian city.
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