---
id: 4311
title: "Tearing down a car telematic unit (and finding an accident on Facebook)"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/tearing-down-a-car-telematic-unit-and-finding-an-accident-on-facebook.html"
published_at: "2026-04-08 22:00"
tags: ["hardware-security", "osint", "automotive", "forensics", "tcu", "byd"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4311"
lang: en
---

# Tearing down a car telematic unit (and finding an accident on Facebook)

## Summary

Quarkslab tore down a second-hand BYD telematic unit (Snapdragon MDM9628, NAND flash), extracted firmware and stored data, then combined forensics with OSINT.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2026-04-08 22:00
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/tearing-down-a-car-telematic-unit-and-finding-an-accident-on-facebook.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4311