deskthority

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-w ... SKCN0WP21I
Wireless mice (but not bluetooth) are hackable up to 180 meters away from the home device.

That's both terrifying and gratifying... I don't own any wireless mice!

Different electronic attack vectors are always cool to hear about. There was one that used high frequency noises from processors to crack strong encryption:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1731 ... puters-cpu

I always use a wireless mouse, but I don't think I'll ever be lucky enough to get hacked...

Mouse doesn't reveal much information, so being able to hack it is more to show off than to actually achieve something useful such as downloading nuclear plant blueprints or stealing bank account information.

The point the article linked by elecplus/Cindy was making is that once the attacker controls "a mouse", it can turn it into controlling "a keyboard", typing many characters per second. Once the attacker has that, it can type in, say, an URL which then exploits a bug in the system to gain control. Or it can "type in" a whole binary executable for that matter.
(This is the same approach as e.g. Rubber Ducky (or similar devices, e.g. Teensies) has been using, except now it's possible to do it remotely, not having to actually plug in a usb stick.)