KIA Motors Corporation is a car manufacturer and is an automobile company in Korea. Part of the Hyundai-KIA industrial group, the company aims to become one of the leaders in the global automotive industry.
History
2024: Recall of millions of cars with defective airbags
On July 31, 2024, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration USA (NHTSA) announced that more than 50 million cars of different brands can be equipped with defective airbags, which in the event of a traffic accident can cause serious harm to the health of the driver and passengers or even provoke their death. Defective products were marketed by ARC Automotive and Delphi Automotive Systems. More here
2023
Resumption of official car deliveries to Russia
In February 2023, Kia resumed official deliveries of cars to the Russian market. The car dealerships of the Russian Federation received a large batch of new South Korean-assembled cars, which will be sold with a branded factory warranty - 5 years or 150 thousand km.
The publication "Motor" gives a list of models of cars imported in Russia, as well as prices for them:
- Kia Picanto: 1,400,000 rubles;
- Kia Soul: 2,100,000 rubles;
- Kia Cerato: 2,200,000 rubles;
- Kia Ceed: 2,500,000 rubles;
- Kia K5: 2,900,000 rubles;
- Kia Sportage: 4,000,000 rubles;
- Kia Sorento: 5,000,000 rubles;
- Kia Stinger: 5,500,000 rubles;
- Kia K9: 9,000,000 rubles.
It is noted that the exhibited copies will cost buyers significantly more than the "gray."
You can save money on buying South Korean-assembled cars using the trade-in program and issuing a loan - under such conditions, the cost of cars will decrease to 400,000 rubles, the portal notes.
At the same time, Kia Executive Vice President U-Chung Chu previously admitted that the company could stop car sales in Russia and leave only maintenance. According to him, Kia does not exclude in 2023 an increase in uncertainty and a "complete shutdown" of the car market in Russia.
Customers of the Renault and Kia car brands in Russia are beginning to gradually abandon these cars and purchase other car brands. This was announced on March 21, 2023 by the chairman of the board of directors of the BN-Motors dealer and vice-president of the Russian Automobile Dealers Association Alexei Podshchekoldin. This is due to the fact that cars of these brands become more difficult to maintain, he said.[1]
Recall of a thousand defective crossovers due to faulty transmission control software
On February 16, 2023, it became known about the recall in Russia of 5455 Kia Sorento crossovers due to faulty software. The service campaign concerns cars sold on the Russian market from 2021 to 2022. More details here.
2022
Recall of a thousand hybrids that for no reason light up in parking lots
On September 27, 2022, it became known that Kia was recalling about 70 thousand of its Sorento and Sportage SUV models from 2016-2022 due to the likelihood of their sudden ignition. Read more here.
105 thousand defective Kia cars are being recalled in Russia due to faulty airbag software
In Russia, more than 105 thousand defective Kia cars are being recalled due to faulty airbag software. This was announced by the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart) on August 8, 2022. Read more here
2021
A sharp rise in car prices in Russia
DoppelPaymer ransomware virus attack
In mid-February 2021, it became known that Kia Motors America attacked. virus extortioner DoppelPaymer Hackers sent a ransom demand in the amount of 404 (bitcoin $20 million).
According to Bleeping Computer, the virus encrypted important files and stole confidential information from the servers of the company's North American division. The outage affected many of Kia's services, including Kia's UVO Link mobile app, phone services, a primary web resource, payment systems, an owner portal and internal sites used by dealerships around the world. One of the users Twitter said that when trying to pick up a new car in the cabin, he was told about servers those disconnected due to. hacker attack
In a ransom memo, hackers threatened to release the stolen data within three working weeks if payment for the decryption tool did not go to the ransomware account. Earlier, the American manufacturer Endemol Shine and the Mexican state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos were attacked by the DoppelPaymer ransomware virus.
 | Attacks by DoppelPaymer and other ransomware viruses are much more profitable when they disrupt the critical IT operations of large corporations, said Andrea Carcano, co-founder of cybersecurity company Nozomi Networks. - Use scenarios for ransomware viruses should be considered in incident response plans. Decision makers should be prepared to weigh the risks and consequences of different options. |  |
However, Kia Motors America officials deny that the company was the victim of a ransomware virus: "we can currently confirm that we have not received undeniable evidence of an attack or data theft." Representatives of the company explained the problems to a large-scale failure.[2]
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