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@ 2023/12/15Now the manufacturer is suing
Hackers unbricked a train in Poland that its manufacturer had deliberately disabled. Now the manufacturer is threatening legal action against the hackers despite evidence it sabotaged the trains.
NEWAG, the manufacturer of the Impuls family of trains, put code in the train's control systems that prevented them from running if a GPS tracker detected that it spent a certain number of days in an independent repair company's maintenance centre, and prevented it from running if certain components had been replaced without a manufacturer-approved serial number.
Hackers unbricked a train in Poland that its manufacturer had deliberately disabled. Now the manufacturer is threatening legal action against the hackers despite evidence it sabotaged the trains.
NEWAG, the manufacturer of the Impuls family of trains, put code in the train's control systems that prevented them from running if a GPS tracker detected that it spent a certain number of days in an independent repair company's maintenance centre, and prevented it from running if certain components had been replaced without a manufacturer-approved serial number.
