> The hacker shared the data on the Tesla Motors Club forum, and the automaker seemingly wasn’t happy about it.
> Someone who appeared to be working at Tesla posted anonymously about how they didn’t want the data out there.
> Hughes responded that he would be happy to discuss it with them.
> 20 minutes later, he was on a conference call with the head of the Supercharger network and the head of software security at Tesla.
> They kindly explained to him that they would prefer for him not to share the data, which was technically accessible through the vehicles. Hughes then agreed to stop scraping and sharing the Supercharger data.
> After reporting his server exploit through Tesla’s bug reporting service, he received a $5,000 reward for exposing the vulnerability.
What's the difference between this and what Uber's former Security Chief was charged with?
The hack you are talking about is unrelated to the one that let him control the Tesla network. In that one it sounds like he just put together a custom client that requested supercharger data from Tesla, which I wouldn't really consider hacking.
> Someone who appeared to be working at Tesla posted anonymously about how they didn’t want the data out there.
> Hughes responded that he would be happy to discuss it with them.
> 20 minutes later, he was on a conference call with the head of the Supercharger network and the head of software security at Tesla.
> They kindly explained to him that they would prefer for him not to share the data, which was technically accessible through the vehicles. Hughes then agreed to stop scraping and sharing the Supercharger data.
> After reporting his server exploit through Tesla’s bug reporting service, he received a $5,000 reward for exposing the vulnerability.
What's the difference between this and what Uber's former Security Chief was charged with?