All Discussion re: Tesla Motors Website & Forums

[Paul Carter]

The ransom in the html source code is for a Tesla to be shipped to an address in Toronto, Canada to said claim hacker! What the?

 

[TaoJones]

That's not impressive at all, that's called something else entirely. And I'm definitely not impressed by your post.

You're not alone. Very poor signal to noise ratio second perhaps only to Brian H., but at least they banned Brian H. I suppose it's just a matter of time.

Edit: Gah. Second part didn't paste:

Even if this is a domain-level effort, as referenced above there are other, albeit less likely penetration possibilities. It's good practice to change passwords periodically, and right after this episode is deemed concluded counts as periodically. That's also pretty much all that we as users can do, aside from continuing to ask for two-factor authentication and to use secure proxies/tunneling, if so inclined.

Frustrating.

 

[Skyboy102]

I first saw it on my car browser. It was a picture of a red tesla with three faces.

text said "your tesla has been hacked. Talk about spooky.

 

[CALGARYARSENAL]

Only 6 posts and you put stuff up like this.....Hmmmmmmmm.

 

[ZBB]

Looks like they are back up... Both the mobile app and teslamotors.com are working...

 

[sorka]

You're not alone. Very poor signal to noise ratio second perhaps only to Brian H., but at least they banned Brian H. I suppose it's just a matter of time.

Edit: Gah. Second part didn't paste:

Even if this is a domain-level effort, as referenced above there are other, albeit less likely penetration possibilities. It's good practice to change passwords periodically, and right after this episode is deemed concluded counts as periodically. That's also pretty much all that we as users can do, aside from continuing to ask for two-factor authentication and to use secure proxies/tunneling, if so inclined.

Frustrating.

This is exactly why this is an issue. I suggest Tesla needs to be concerned with having their server and hence cars hacked and you guys are suggesting that I be banned? Astonishing.

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Looks like they are back up... Both the mobile app and teslamotors.com are working...

Not working for me. I flushed all my dns caches as well. It could take some time for the correction to spread to all the servers....if this is really a DNS hijacking issue that is.

 

[tgp1019]

tesla motors.com is back online

 

[JimmyAZ]

My Tesla site hacked?

Anyone else seeing my.teslamotors.com switching to a hacker site?

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

<someone's tweet>

Please don't give him oxygen.

 

[pox]

I'm still seeing the hacked website and this video

 

[dbdguam]

Oh yeah, completely blocked

 

[stopcrazypp]

They fixed the record at the root already.

DNS servers switched to:
UDNS1.ULTRADNS.NET
UDNS2.ULTRADNS.NET

nslookup shows both are pointing to: 205.234.27.220 (previously was 188.226.230.145)

A couple of hours ago, the nameservers were set to:
NS11.CLOUDNS.NET
NS12.CLOUDNS.NET
NS13.CLOUDNS.NET
NS14.CLOUDNS.NET

Who knows how long it will take to propagate through to everyone. My local DNS for AT&T is still directing me to the incorrect IP when going to teslamotors.com

Also, it seems Tesla uses Akamai for caching, so going to http://www.teslamotors.com (important to have www part in front) more chances than not would work because that will show a cached copy of the site from Akamai's server (at least it does for me).

 

[HankLloydRight]

Thank you mods for merging all the duplicate threads.

 

[Doug_G]

No problem. Figures this would break loose while I'm at the track...

 

[apacheguy]

Who knows how far into the systems the hackers got, but for safety and security purposes, I've disabled remote access to the car for now, and as soon as Tesla gets this cleaned up and are back online, I'm going to change my Tesla site password.

FYI, that won't do anything. Your car remains connected to their internal LAN even if remote access is disabled.

 

[tliving]

teslamotors.com site and tesla twitter feed problems don't both me.

but my 'visible tesla' app and my iphone model s app are not connecting to my car. is anyone else seeing that?

App is working for me now.

 

[Khatsalano]

This is confirmed with screenshots.

Hackers temporarily take control of Tesla’s website, Elon Musks Twitter account | The Verge

If you go to the Tesla website right now, you get lots of links to Toyota products! At least that has some humor to it.

- K

 

[Krugerrand]

This is exactly why this is an issue. I suggest Tesla needs to be concerned with having their server and hence cars hacked and you guys are suggesting that I be banned? Astonishing.

Who are 'you guyS'? I didn't see a suggestion for your banning but rather a prediction, and I suspect that was based on a collection of your posts, not just the one being referenced. Regardless, only one person posted on that subject, so there is no 'you guyS'.

I suggest Tesla knows far better than you what they need to be concerned about.

 

[NigelM]

THANK YOU to all the experts who explained this in simple terms throughout today. I have plenty of faith in Tesla's security that nothing could happen to my car but it's nice to be reassured by folks I "know".

The biggest issue for Tesla may be the impact on sales due to the website being down and folks who see this as a risk to their personal data or their vehicle.

 

[TEG]

FWIW, those fake tweets are telling people to call and go here for a free Tesla:

Where We Are - Oswego PC Repair

https://www.facebook.com/OswegoPcRepair/info?tab=overview

Those hackers must have some 'beef' with Oswego PC repair...

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http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-twitter-hacked-ripprrgang-2015-4

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/04/tesla-hacked