Poland: hackers used to unblock trains?
One of the Newag Impuls trainset used in Lower Silesia Janusz Jakubowski / Wikimedia)
In Poland, train manufacturer Newag is taking legal action against a maintenance company which was able to unlock the on-board computers of its trains thanks to hackers. According to the hackers, these trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops.
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Dragon Sector has longer, more technical presentation at 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg. Talk was recorded and is available online. They present arguments that are difficult to dispute, showing that the wagon manufacturer modified the software.