Teen cyber prodigy stumbled onto flaw letting him hijack Teslas

As Colombo dug deeper he realised that he could push commands to Tesla vehicles whose owners were using the program. That capability enabled him to hijack some functions on those cars, including opening and closing the doors, turning up the music and disabling security features. — AFP

David Colombo, a 19-year-old cybersecurity researcher in Germany, came upon the biggest discovery of his young career by accident.

He was performing a security audit for a French company when he noticed something unusual: a software program on the company’s network that exposed all the data about the chief technology officer’s Tesla Inc vehicle. The data included a full history of where the car had been driven and its precise location at that moment.