Chrysler and Harman Hit With a Class Action Complaint After Jeep Hack - Wired
Last month’s Jeep hacking scandal has already been followed by a 1. 4 million vehicle recall and a well-timed Senate bill. On Tuesday three Jeep Cherokee owners filed a complaint against both Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Harman International, the maker of the Uconnect dashboard computer in millions of Chrysler vehicles. A security flaw in that cellular-connected computer served as the entry point for security researchers Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller when they showed WIRED last month that they could wirelessly hack into a 2014 Jeep over the internet to hijack... If their complaint is certified by a court as a class action, the broad spectrum of affected Chrysler vehicles means it could snowball into a case with more than a million potential plaintiffs. They point out that Valasek and Miller alerted Chrysler to their findings of architectural vulnerabilities in Jeep Cherokees in a paper in early 2014 that mentioned connections between the Jeep’s Internet-enabled entertainment system and its CAN... “The [affected] Vehicles are defectively designed in that essential engine and safety functionality is connected to the unsecure uConnect system through the CAN bus,” their complaint reads. Source: www.wired.com
