Was someone able to remotely hack 25 Teslas?

It sounds like a classic Hollywood plot — young computer genius manages to hack into multiple vehicles and control them remotely, thus saving the world or enacting some evil plan, depending on the character.

The first part, at least, actually did happen. David Colombo, a 19-year-old security researcher from Germany, recently discovered a security bug in TeslaMate that allowed him to remotely access certain features of 25 Teslas around the world. TeslaMate is an open source logging tool that tracks all kinds of data on Tesla vehicles, like energy consumption.

Via the security bug, Colombo said he could have remotely performed a number of actions on the affected Teslas, including unlocking doors and windows, playing music, flashing the lights, honking the horn, and even starting keyless driving. It sounds like one of the only things he wasn’t able to do was actually move the car.

Colombo immediately notified TeslaMate and Tesla’s security team, and a fix for the affected vehicles was issued within hours. The owners were also notified. Colombo clarified on Twitter that the vulnerability was not Tesla’s fault — in this case, it was on the owners for how they had configured TeslaMate.