Bikeshare System Hacked, Required to ‘Manually Update’ 2,000 Bikes

But the Internet of Hackable Things leaves no connected device behind: Even in famously cyclist-friendly Copenhagen, the city’s electric bikeshare program recently experienced a huge, pain-in-the-ass technical difficulty. Bycyklen, the company that maintains the bicycles, announced on Sunday that its system—and all of the electric bikes within it—was hacked. The company had to send staff to each of its 100 locations around the city to manually reboot each bike.

Source: vice.com