Chrysler Launches Bug Bounty For Connected Vehicles After Jeep Cherokee Hack

FIAT CHRYSLER AUTOMOBILES has launched a bug bounty program to attract white-hat hackers to spot out cybersecurity flaws in its products and connected services.

-  John Ribeiro

The program is focused on FCA’s connected vehicles, including systems within them and external services and applications that link to them.

The move follows the remote hack and control of a Jeep Cherokee, one of the company’s products, by security researchers. That breach led to the recall (go.pcworld.com/jeephack) of 1.4 million vehicles last year.

Fiat Chrysler is also moving quite aggressively in the area of autonomous vehicles, announcing earlier this year the joint development of self-driven minivans (go.pcworld.com/fiatselfdriving) with Alphabet’s Google Self-Driving Car Project.