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Fiat Chrysler America has recalled 1.4 million vehicles for fix work and FCA must offer to buy back 500,000 Ram pickup trucks and other vehicles in the biggest such decision against and by an automaker in history. “Many of our do the job now is looking to find out how common the weakness could be”.

Mark Rosekind, who heads the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said his watchdog agency is trying to determine how many auto makers have received radios from the company that supplied Fiat Chrysler.

Although Rosekind wouldn’t identify the manufacturer of FCA’s Uconnect radio, Charlie Miller, one of the men responsible for bringing the cyber risk to the forefront, said Harman makes the unit. Company officials were not immediately available for comment.

The potential raises the likelihood of more automaker reviews over hacking vulnerabilities, an issue that has snatched the consideration of controllers, administrators and people in general.

Fiat Chrysler has since admitted to violating the Safety Act in three areas: effective and timely recall remedies, notification to vehicle owners and dealers and notifications to NHTSA.

The recall was triggered by reports that cybersecurity researchers were able to remotely gain control of a Jeep Cherokee engine as it was driving.

This incident threw Fiat Chrysler in the defensive end, saying that it had secured the problem in its vehicles’ cellular telephone network to avoid the same attacks in the near future and had essayed a voluntary recall. “You’ve got to see the entire industry proactively dealing with these things”. Search for it at the NHTSA site.

“It’s not just about the hack”. He added that the NHTSA has yet to begin formal investgations on the reported cybersecurity issue of GM.