- May 4, 2019
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The source code for "smart car" components installed in Mercedez-Benz vans has been leaked online over the weekend, ZDNet has learned.
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
Mercedes-Benz onboard logic unit (OLU) source code leaks online
Daimler allowed anyone to register on one of its on-premise GitLab servers.
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