A Wired article published this week detailed how security experts remotely hacked a Jeep, prompting the recall.
Fiat Chrysler is recalling about 1.4 million cars after a Wired article published Tuesday revealed that hackers were able to remotely hijack a Jeep steered by a Wired reporter. Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, the security researchers who acted as hackers, were testing a security hole they found in Chrysler's Uconnect system, which evidently enables car hackers to gain access to a vehicle through its entertainment system—so much so, that they could even cut the brakes and transmission.
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