Tesla's plan to use Chromium in cars is hacked before it is completed

Tesla is the latest company to apply Chromium tools for web browsers on cars. Owner Elon Musk and his employees are quickly working on and deploying Chromium. Information has been confirmed by Musk through a claim on Twitter of customers who are using Tesla.

However, unfortunately for Tesla, the system was hacked by hackers Fluoroacetate at Pwn2Own 2019. According to the contest's report, hackers successfully hacked into some systems, in which 'coincidentally'. 'including Tesla's latest Chromium-based browser experience. Fluoroacetate targets this system on the Tesla Model 3 by exploiting the JIT Bug bug in the browser and bringing in $ 35,000 plus a Model 3.

While the hack is definitely bad news for Tesla, it's good that this exploit occurred before introducing the browser to the public. This will give Tesla an opportunity to fix bugs before deployment and ensure that it is not exploited by hackers in the future.