100 Cars remote bricked by disgruntled former dealership employee

Wired – Threat Level - Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely

“More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership’s four Austin-area lots.
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Sounds like a movie plot element. Can you just see it in a movie, where all the electronic/remote disable’able cars in the US are hit all at once? Only a matter of time (until we see it in a movie, TV show, etc).