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Car Advice reports thieves are now able to hack into cars using codes given off by a car’s keyless entry system. It recounts one report from Ohio:

. . . in a shopping car park, a person locked their car only to hear it unlock again. The person then locked it again only to hear it unlock once again. The person then turned to see two men looking at the car suspiciously. The owner had no doubt the men had something to do with the weird situation.

The article goes on to indicate that, once a car is locked using the keyless entry device, a code is sent to the car that can then be picked up by the tech-minded thieves using a special tool.which resends the code to the car unlocking the doors.