most probably, because of CAN bus, which is the system that most of the cars use to connect their systems. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219335

most probably, because of CAN bus, which is the system that most of the cars use to connect their systems. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219335/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219335/ how CAN bus works: https://payatu.com/blog/kartheek.lade/automotive-security-part3 https://payatu.com/blog/kartheek.lade/automotive-security-pa... i’m aware that on this case there was something even dumber, an unsecured api endpoint, but as far as i know, if you’ve managed to reach the system you can do anything with any other connected device. there should not be a way to be able to do whatever you want just because you have access to the network.