A St. Louis woman who regularly protected her car keys from electronic thieves woke up to find her 2017 Nissan Maxima missing after leaving her key fob outside its protective holder for one night.
Sherri Brown’s sedan disappeared from an off-street parking area beside her Wyoming Street home sometime between Sunday night, October 11, and Monday morning, October 12. The car had been locked, and her keys were inside the house.
Brown suspects the thieves used a relay attack, a technique that can trick a vehicle into recognizing a nearby key even when its owner has the fob safely indoors. However, that method has not been confirmed in her case…