All Discussion re: Tesla Motors Website & Forums

[dsm363]

Seems to be back to normal.

 

[BartJ]

They pulled the plug at last... website down now...

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[anticitizen13.7]

Tesla motors website just been hacked ?

I guess Tesla should have made better use of the "Hacker Princess", Kristin Paget, they hired away from Apple (Tesla Motors Snags From Apple | CleanTechnica). Oh, wait, she no longer works at Tesla (Kristin Paget (@KristinPaget) | Twitter)

Tesla needs to hire someone very paranoid who can map out avenues of access to their various assets.

Maybe start recruiting at Pwn2Own?

Edit: reported to Twitter that the @teslamotors account was being used to harass someone via their phone #.

 

[Curt Renz]

The twitter account got hacked for sure. Multiple silly shoutout tweets. Main site looks OK for me (tried reloading several times).

It appears that Tesla fixed the hack rather quickly for its website. In the case of the Twitter account it would have been Twitter that was hacked. Twitter would have to fix it.

 

[BartJ]

we can just pray that did not got access to any backend system that has connectivity to the cars....

 

[JER]

The names, addresses, telephone numbers and Twitter IDs posted on the hacked pagesare probably just innocent targets. Apparently this kind of thing is common in doxing attacks; the idea is to cause victims to be harassed by many third parties. Best thing we can do is ignore it and wait for administrators to put it right.

 

[Lump]

Mobile App & Visibletesla unable to communicate with car.

 

[tliving]

Seems to be back to normal.

Now their pages won't load for me. I think they took it down to fix it.

 

[BartJ]

It appears that Tesla fixed the hack rather quickly for its website. In the case of the Twitter account it would have been Twitter that was hacked. Twitter would have to fix it.

You call that quickly ???
the site was dephased for at least 45 minutes !!
and currently it's still completely offline ...

 

[Johan]

My app works. I just honked the horn 5 seconds ago to confirm.

 

[Cyclone]

What's really odd is that it should up fine for me, but I'm viewing it from my phone.

 

[araxara]

Tesla needs to hire someone very paranoid who can map out avenues of access to their various assets.

Maybe start recruiting at Pwn2Own?

Edit: reported to Twitter that the @teslamotors account was being used to harass someone via their phone #.

If Tesla did take the website down, then at least there is someone that can respond quickly to these sort of things. Let's see how quickly they resolve the website and twitter account.

 

[tliving]

What's really odd is that it should up fine for me, but I'm viewing it from my phone.

Maybe some kind of DNS attack? Its now unresponsive for me. That happened after about 25 minutes. Their twitter account is still compromised:
#RIPPRGANG (@TeslaMotors) | Twitter

 

[SomeJoe7777]

I think Tesla may have taken their entire infrastructure offline. The mobile app and Visible Tesla aren't working and neither is the My Tesla dashboard page.

 

[BartJ]

Mobile App & Visibletesla unable to communicate with car.

Are you serious ?
that's frightening !

Anyone else with similar issues ?

 

[Curt Renz]

You call that quickly ???
the site was dephased for at least 45 minutes !!
and currently it's still completely offline ...

It's been fine for me since I started checking a half hour ago. Perhaps there is a European version of the website that remains affected.

 

[Lump]

Are you serious ?
that's frightening !

Anyone else with similar issues ?

Wife is driving right now & VT & App thinks its sleeping.

I am tracking her with Find My Friends.

 

[TexasEV]

Site is displaying normally for me now on Safari. Yesterday going to the Tesla site on my PC caused the computer to crash with a windows shut down abnormally message, then on rebooting when I opened Firefox the Tesla site same up again and crashed the computer again.

 

[Krugerrand]

What would be even more impressive is if someone hacks far enough to force all MSs to accelerate at full speed wherever they are even if they're parked in their garages. Can you imagine 60K+ Model Ss all crashing at the same time no matter where they are or what they're doing?

That's not impressive at all, that's called something else entirely. And I'm definitely not impressed by your post.

 

[SomeJoe7777]

Who knows how far into the systems the hackers got, but for safety and security purposes, I've disabled remote access to the car for now, and as soon as Tesla gets this cleaned up and are back online, I'm going to change my Tesla site password.