Hackers facing legal battle with railway manufacturer

EDRi reports that Chaos Computer Club supports hackers facing legal battle with railway manufacturer:

Three ethical hackers were targeted by Polish railway manufacturer Newag after exposing anti-competitive practices.

Turns out the threat was real.

To recap: Back in 2023, trains made by Polish manufacturer Newag became locked while undergoing maintenance at a maintenance facility. Newag had to be called to unlock. For a fee.

After encountering the problem, a train operator hired some infosec consultants to analyse the problemm, and after a thorough reverse egineering, they found that you can unlock the train. They also found that if the train spend too much time at specific locations, they become locked. Turns out these specific location are the competitor maintenance facilities, to whome Newag lost the bid for the maintenace contract.

But Newag doubled down on their criminal behavior by suing the infosec consultants.