Lime: This is how the company's e-scooters were hacked

Normally, scooters are restricted in use by being activated via app and cannot be used easily. However, scooters made by Lime caused an uproar in April 2019. Various e-scooters were manipulated by unknown persons in such a way that they played embarrassing messages when starting and stopping.

Lime: This is what happened to the hacked scooters

In Brisbane, Australia, various e-scooters were hacked earlier this year and behaved differently from what people are used to seeing from the companions.

1. In order to use an e-scooter from the company Lime, it must be activated with the help of the associated app.
2. This activation only works if the basic fee for use can be collected via the stored payment method.
3. To signal to the user that the process has been successful, a beep sounds.
4. In the hacked scooters, this sound was replaced by embarrassing messages that directly address the user.

What was the content of the messages of the hacked scooters?

1. When the scooters were started, the user was insulted by a message or put in an embarrassing situation.
2. Dabei haben die Hacker wohl versucht, humorvoll zu sein und bei den Sprüchen gegenüber den Nutzern auf Schlagfertigkeit zu setzen.
3. Auch beim Abstellen wurden die Nutzer weiterhin angesprochen und durch die Nachricht zum „Zurückkommen“ aufgefordert.
4. Die Firma selbst sammelte alle betroffenen Scooter ein und überspielte das fehlerhafte System.