Any lock will keep an honest person out.  A real criminal will alway find a way to enter.

      It would be easier to pick the door lock, or pry open a window, then to get into a Supra box. 

     Combo box can be picked with two pieces of metal.

Hell, I had a box get stuck and we couldn't get it off with huge bolt cutters. One, we had a guy drill through with a 3/4 inch bit! They are practically indestructible. NOW, having said that . . . it all depends what they are affixed to.

Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - if someone wants to break the security of something, he or she would do it anyways!

Lock-boxes are nothing compared to other hacks we hear of.

Not sentrilocks. I suppose if you have a sawz-all it would take it out but then the neighbors would hear you hacking the front door down.

Never heard of that happening with electronic lockboxes.. that's pretty scary...thought you would need a bolt cutter to saw them off... 

Not at all. When they fail I have to get them hacksawed off the door knob and have never been able to get one to open and release the key.

This is first instance I have ever heard of lockbox being broken into but there is a first for everything. 

I have not Wanda Kubat-Nerdin 

Lock boxs aren't meant to keep burglars out. Anyone can force a door open with or without a lockbox on it. Yes, lockboxes can be pryed or cut open to remove keys if you have the right tools.

I would take that with a grain of salt. I have never heard of this happening. Sounds like someone had an active key that was loaned to them.

Once someone knows the place is empty or available...anything can be broken into

We are Sentry Lock here and I've never heard of it but as others have said it would just be easier to break a window or something.

Very few houses are actually difficult to break into. Not sure this story is a significant case for concern. However, clearly vacant houses have long been a target and that is somethting everyone in our field should think about.

Any lock box can be broken into with a hammer. I have not heard or had any issues. In the end a lock keeps the honest guy out, a bad person will get no matter what

I didn't see that. Would be a difficult task - but if someone wants in a home I believe they could find an easier way.

Not yet, but not surprising!

If it was a combo I can understand, perhaps there is a program to break the codes but I am not aware of it

not here

No, I haven't. And I can't fathom how they would be "easy" to breach.

Ahhhhhh Facebook...  It wasn't a sponsored post for a new lockbox was it? ;)

Once - but the box was gone so no idea what actually transpired...

I could see someone coming up with a technical/electronic way to get into a lockbox, but not physically. Those things are tough.

I haven't heard of this.  Like others have said, seems like it would be easier to just break into the house than to break into the lockbox to get the key to the house.  

No, I haven't Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - that's terrible!  I will say that I also had one stuck one time and it took 3 trips for contractors with various tools to get that darn thing off!  I do agree with Candice A. Donofrio - could be what it was attached to that was the weak link?

In my experience, they are not easy to break into. Once MLS told me to cut one off  on a listing since it got "locked" and became unresponsive. My husband had to use huge clippers to get one off. Don't know if it could be hacked into electronically. 

It its a Supra box good luck getting in to it!! We do not use combo boxes they are sooo easy to get into!

NO. but Richard Weeks summed it up.

Electronic as Supra one? No, I never heard them to be unlocked without the key. But everything is possible. 

Probably easier to break the door knob off and get in that way than to dig the key out of a lockbox.

I have not heard of this. I have heard in another, nearby market, where agents were providing buyers with the lockbox key app and letting them enter property themselves.  Not something we would ever allow.

I haven't heard about that.  I use Sentrilocks and hope to never have that happpen.  I guess if thieves want to break in, they will do whatever it takes!

Anyone with a sniffer within proper distance AND a iPhone can open a Supra.

Like all problems, if you know the answer, they are easy.

By the way, the same technology can record your key remote and the thief can open and drive away with your keyless car.

This is the first I heard of this.

I can't believe they would go to that level of effort ?

Wanda Kubat-Nerdin I would think it is possible. No lock is impenetrable.

No.

I have not read anything about this type of issue.  Our board does not require the use of electronic lock boxes and most agents do not use them here.

I've seen several YouTube videos demonstrating how easy it is to break into any kind of lockbox.  

I do not think so unless they had big bolt cutters and a saw to cut throught it.

We are still old school in my area. Many years ago I did have an LB breached. That vacant house was moved into by squattors. They were all eventually arrested due to my diligence in checking the remote house for my client each week. We really don't have a problem in my area. 

I can see how this could be done.  I don't know the communications technology between the Supra boxes and the physical key, but the bluetooth communications method between the Supra and the eKey on the phones can be read from quite a distance (with the right tech).  Then the communication could be examined and hacked.  Might be able to get away with a simple replay attack like they do with car doors.

This all requires a dedicated thief who is seriously technically inclined.  Most will either get lucky that an agent didn't properly seat the box into the Supra or just do a standard B&E.

No, but it doesn't surprise me.

I have not experienced this. Thanks for sharing this alert.

If a person made, a person can break it !!

I guess if someone really wants to break into a property, they will.  But I think breaking awindow would have been an easier way to do it.