Hacker News with Generative AI: Subaru

Hackers crack Subaru's connected services to access data, door locks and more (jalopnik.com)
If you own a modern Subaru, chances are you’ve heard of Starlink — the company’s connected services suite, which lets you control your car through an app or call roadside assistance to your location. That system, though, has other functionality that you might not know: Storing your car’s location history for the last year, and making that information available through an admin panel that until recently was left wide open for hackers.
Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Cars (wired.com)
Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start any of millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access at least a year of cars’ location histories—and Subaru employees still can.