The source code for “smart car” components installed in Mercedez-Benz vans has been leaked online over the weekend, ZDNet has learned. From the report: The leak occurred after Till Kottmann, a Swiss-based software engineer, discovered a Git web portal belonging to Daimler AG, the German automotive company behind the Mercedes-Benz car brand. Kottmann told ZDNet that he was able to register an account on Daimler’s code-hosting portal, and then download more than 580 Git repositories containing the source code of onboard logic units (OLUs) installed in Mercedez vans. According to the Daimler website, the OLU is a component that sits between the car’s hardware and software, and “connects vehicles to the cloud.” Daimler says the OLU “simplifies technical access and the management of live vehicle data” and allows third-party developers to create apps that retrieve data from Mercedes vans. These apps are usually employed for features such as tracking vans while on the road, tracking a van’s internal status, or for freezing vans in case of theft.
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