Some cities have reported that 60% or more of their auto theft reports now involve Hyundais or Kias.
- Nearly three months ago, Hyundai and Kia unveiled software that was designed to thwart an epidemic of thefts of their vehicles, caused by a security flaw that was exposed on TikTok and other social media sites.
So far this year, Minneapolis police have received 1,899 Kia and Hyundai theft reports, nearly 18 times the number for the same period in 2022. In New York, the Hyundai-Kia theft problem has grown so worrisome that the city held a news conference last last month to offer owners devices that can track their vehicles if they’re stolen. Police there reported 966 Hyundai and Kia thefts as of April 30 — nearly seven times the number in the same period of 2022.
Ira Gabriel, a spokesman for Hyundai, said the company has tried to remove from social media the instructional videos that show how to steal the cars.Kia said in a statement that it began developing and testing the security software last year. The companies’ affected cars, many of them lower-cost models from the 2011 to early 2022 model years,Such a device contains a computer chip in the key that must be recognized by another chip in the steering column before the engines will start.
“I feel like I should be compensated,” she said. “It’s been ruined because it’s defective. And people know. It’s a target.”
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