US EditionHacking fears as Porsches being 'bricked' in Russia
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Many of the luxury cars can no longer be started. The cause is unknown. Equipment is about a connection to the war in Ukraine.
Many Porsche PKWs in Russia cannot be started at the moment. The reason seems to be the satellite-based alarm system.
All of Russia's Porsches Were Bricked By a Mysterious Satellite Outage
An anonymous reader shared this report from Autoblog: Imagine walking out to your car, pressing the start button, and getting absolutely nothing. No crank, no lights on the dash, nothing. That's exactly what happened to hundreds of Porsche owners in Russia last week. The issue is with the Vehicle Tracking System, a satellite-based security system that's supposed to protect against theft. Instead, it turned these Porsches into driveway ornaments.…
Reports have been accumulating for days that cars of the Porsche brand no longer start in Russian cities. A conscious blocking is not excluded.
Hundreds of Porsche cars immobilized in Russia
By Deng Xiaoci | Global Times | December 7, 2025 Hundreds of Porsche owners in Russia have reported that their cars had failed to start due to a widespread malfunction since November 28 with Russia’s largest Porsche dealer suggesting the possibility that the situation could be caused deliberately, while some German media outlets claimed that the issue emerged after the factory-installed alarm system was accidentally blocked via its satellite mod…
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