Hyundai and Kia thefts soar more than 1000% since 2020 | CNN Business
Hyundai and Kia thefts soar more than 1000% since 2020 | CNN Business
Certain Hyundai and Kia models saw a 10-fold increase in thefts in just the past three years, a wildly dramatic increase in the wake of a series of social media posts showing people how to steal the vehicles.
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Both have easy to defeat security just like the challenger/charger.
9 0 ReplySecurity?
You break open the steering column and all it takes is any USB to start the car
Like, it's not some USB "hack" it works with a charging cable even. You just stick it in and turn it like a key.
They have zero security, it just took social media for the word to get out that a literal child has the skills to do this
13 0 Replyso it's just a form factor hack, not an actual usb bus attack?
jfc
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"Security". These pieces of shit don't even have steering immobilizers which have been standard for decades on other cars.
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