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| The pair of security researchers who remotely hacked the Jeep Cherokee now work for Uber |
SMARTPHONE taxi firm Uber has hired the two hackers who sent a Jeep Cherokee careering into a ditch from a sofa, more than 10 miles away.
The two security experts took control of the Fiat Chrysler vehicle and crashed it into a ditch from a sofa.
The terrifying hack, which was first made public back in July, was the first of its kind and forced Chrysler to recall 1.4 million cars and trucks across the United States.
Smartphone taxi firm Uber has now hired security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, who performed the devastating hack using a laptop, mobile phone and wireless internet connection.
Raffi Krikorian, who works at Uber’s Advanced Technologies centre in Pittsburgh, confirmed that the duo would begin work for Uber next week.
Uber’s Advanced Technologies centre has reportedly been used to work on autonomous car technologies for the taxi firm.
However there has yet to be any word on what projects the security researchers will be working on.
Hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek worked with Andy Greenberg, a writer with technology magazine Wired, to execute the staged hack.
Mr Greenberg was driving the Jeep Cherokee along a public road in St Louis, Missouri, USA when the researchers hacked his vehicle.
In his chilling account of the remote hack, Greenberg described how the air vents started blasting cold air – announcing that the hack had begun.
The radio volume was increased to deafening levels, the windscreen wipers turned and a photo of the two hackers appeared on the cars digital display.
"The most disturbing manoeuvre came when they cut the Jeeps brakes," he wrote for Wired magazine, "leaving me frantically pumping the pedal as the 2-ton SUV slid uncontrollably into a ditch."
Fiat Chrysler has said it will update its software to insulate the recalled vehicles from being remotely controlled.
It also reminded people in a statement that unauthorised remote
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