Federal suit in East St. Louis targets Chrysler over security breach - STLtoday.com
The federal lawsuit filed in East St. Louis on Tuesday names Fiat Chrysler, the maker of Jeep, and Harmon International Industries, manufacturer of the uConnect dashboard computers in millions of Chrysler vehicles, as defendants. The Browns own a 2014 Jeep Cherokee. Hackers Charlie Miller of Ladue and Chris Valasek of Pittsburgh recently took control of a Jeep driven by a Wired magazine reporter on Highway 40 (Interstate 64) in St. Louis. Fiat Chrysler is now conducting the first recall to fix the cybersecurity problems highlighted in the Wired article, covering 1. 4 million Jeeps. And experts and lawmakers are warning the auto industry and regulators to move faster to plug holes created by the dozens of new computers and the growing number of Internet connections in today’s automobiles. The average new car has 40 to 50 computers that run 20 million lines of software code, more than a Boeing 787, a recent KPMG study found. The lawsuit concerns vehicles equipped with the uConnect 8. 4A and uConnect 8. 4AN systems made by Harman. Source: www.stltoday.com
