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Kia Challenge. The Kia Challenge is a viral TikTok trend to which a series of motor vehicle thefts is attributed, targeting Kia and Hyundai vehicles in the United States manufactured between 2011 and 2021. The trend, which began in October 2022, has led to eight fatalities, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Certain Hyundai and Kia models saw a 10-fold increase in thefts in just the past three years, a wildly dramatic increase in the wake of a series of social media posts showing people how to steal ...
One way WPD has been targeting the thefts is by trying to arrest people in the groups, hoping that will deter the others. ... Southwest Wichita’s 67217 ZIP code was the most-theft prone for Kias ...
In September, the Highway Loss Data Institute, a unit of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, found that Hyundai and Kia cars without immobilizers had a vehicle theft claim rate of 2.18 per ...
A car with one of its windows broken. Motor vehicle theft or car theft (also known as a grand theft auto in the United States) is the criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal a motor vehicle. In 2020, there were 810,400 vehicles reported stolen in the United States, up from 724,872 in 2019. [1] Property losses due to motor vehicle theft ...
On February 3, 2017, Aleksej Gubarev sued BuzzFeed for defamation. The suit, filed in a Broward County, Florida court in the United States, centers on allegations from the dossier that XBT had been "using botnets and porn traffic to transmit viruses, plant bugs, steal data and conduct 'altering operations' against the Democratic Party leadership".
Cars too ‘easy to steal’? Kia and Hyundai owners file lawsuit after TikTok trend. Police departments are sharing records of how many vehicles are stolen — sometimes as many as 20 in one ...
Lexington joins a growing number of cities that have sued the automakers over a lack of anti-theft features and a boom in stolen vehicles. ... the rate of theft for Kias and Hyundais has ...