Subaru Starlink Hacked

This is a U.S. news story, published by MSN, that relates primarily to Subaru news.

U.S. news

For more U.S. news, you can click here:

more U.S. news

News about Us crime, violence, terrorism & cybercrime

For more Us crime, violence, terrorism & cybercrime news, you can click here:

more Us crime, violence, terrorism & cybercrime news

MSN news

For more news from MSN, you can click here:

more news from MSN

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best politics news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like this article about Us crime, violence, terrorism & cybercrime, you might also like this article about

Subaru privacy policies

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest privacy concerns news, personal information news, news about Us crime, violence, terrorism & cybercrime, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

privacy

Lifehacker

•

US Politics

This Subaru Hack Exposed Location Data and Allowed Remote Access

Summary

Nutrition label

75% Informative

Security researchers were able to remotely hack into the Starlink connected vehicle service run by Subaru .

The same platform operates across Subaru vehicles in the U.S. , Canada , and Japan .

With access to driver's surname, ZIP code, email address, phone number, or license plate, they could start, stop, lock, and unlock the car.

They could view the collected location history for a whole year (right down to parking spots) The same hack gave access to personal information about the driver, including their address, their billing information and emergency contact.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful