Hacker reverse engineers First's ticket app

[talltim]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/04/corethree_baked_private_rsa_key_first_bus_ticket_app/

A hacker collective has said that it found the private keys for a Manchester bus company's QR code ticketing app embedded in the app itself – and has now released its own ride-buses-for-free code.

 

[175mph]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/04/corethree_baked_private_rsa_key_first_bus_ticket_app/

I hope that anybody who is unscrupulous enough to take advantage of this is caught and banged to rights.

 

[Tetchytyke]

A Corethree app being an insecure pile of crap? Well, I never. Who'd have seen that coming?

I'm just amazed they managed to stop it crashing long enough to hack it.