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The F1 App Hacked (twitter.com/haltakov)
3 points by vladoh on July 3, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Oof. You can confirm it pretty much everywhere. Qualifying just ended for the Austrian Grand Prix, and many people will/would be paying attention to their phones for news relating to that.

Someone at FOM/Liberty Media (holder of the commercial rights for Formula 1, thus the responsible parties for the app)[1] is not having a pleasant Saturday evening in Austria.

A head or two should roll up the IT chain, but who knows ... might be a credential leak. An event was held at this same track last weekend, an oddity of the COVID-affected race schedule for the sport. Perhaps they re-used some credentials from last week, that were leaked/identified in the layover between race weekends.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_Group


Yes, it will be really interesting to read a post-mortem of this.

I also got a notification just saying "foo" 5 minutes before that and thought that was somebody testing in production.


Got the same message. Also thought it was a developer testing :-), but a few minutes later a message about security issues was pushed...

Love it ...




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