{"id":1196606,"date":"2023-10-26T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1196606"},"modified":"2023-10-26T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:40:00","slug":"hyundai-rolls-out-anti-theft-software-upgrade-for-thefts-spurred-by-tiktoks-kia-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1196606","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai Rolls Out Anti-Theft Software Upgrade for Thefts Spurred by TikTok&#039;s &#039;Kia Challenge&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/7974bbda38a79ff4b2f5f2edb5dc99c9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hyundai said Wednesday it\u2019s pushing an anti-theft software update for select vehicles targeted by thieves using the viral TikTok \u201cKia Challenge.\u201d Both <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tiktok-kia-challenge-1849709926\">Kia and Hyundai car thefts<\/a> started to spike in the summer of 2022<strong> <\/strong>after thieves realized they lacked engine immobilizers and anti-theft technology that is standard in\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/hyundai-rolls-out-anti-theft-software-upgrade-1850961943\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Gizmodo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/hyundai-rolls-out-anti-theft-software-upgrade-1850961943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hyundai Rolls Out Anti-Theft Software Upgrade for Thefts Spurred by TikTok&#8217;s &#8216;Kia Challenge&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyundai said Wednesday it\u2019s pushing an anti-theft software update for select vehicles targeted by thieves using the viral TikTok \u201cKia Challenge.\u201d Both Kia and Hyundai car thefts started to spike in the summer of 2022 after thieves realized they lacked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1196606\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1196607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,110],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1196606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gizmodo","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-gizmodo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}