A thief pulled into a gas station in Detroit, Michigan, and hacked the pump
using an unknown device that allowed him to connect to the device remotely.
I looked this up to see why gas pumps would have bluetooth capabilities and found a fair bit of argument over whether the article is accurate. The linked article says it was identified as a bluetooth hack by the gas station operator based on security cam footage of the thief fiddling with a device near the pump, but I haven’t found anything discussing computer forensics yet. One post speculated that if they do have bluetooth capabilities it might be an unused feature included on cheap multipurpose chips, but I haven’t found any info stating that gas pumps utilize bluetooth for x reason. The pumps apparently often use the same physical keys (and have done for decades) so a tampered pump seems possible to me too.
I looked this up to see why gas pumps would have bluetooth capabilities and found a fair bit of argument over whether the article is accurate. The linked article says it was identified as a bluetooth hack by the gas station operator based on security cam footage of the thief fiddling with a device near the pump, but I haven’t found anything discussing computer forensics yet. One post speculated that if they do have bluetooth capabilities it might be an unused feature included on cheap multipurpose chips, but I haven’t found any info stating that gas pumps utilize bluetooth for x reason. The pumps apparently often use the same physical keys (and have done for decades) so a tampered pump seems possible to me too.