Toyota

 The two hackers who last month announced plans to reveal details concerning how to hack a Toyota Prius and Ford Escape have gotten together with Andy Greenberg from Forbes to demonstrate the technique and just how much trouble they can cause once they have hijacked a vehicle’s computers.

In the video below, Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller get into the backseat of a Prius with a dismantled dashboard and ask Greenberg to start driving. The two hackers are giddy in the backseat as they cycle through a series of attacks that trigger various functions of the car.

 After being fired last week, a contract computer programmer at Toyota Motor Manufacturing intentionally "sabotaged" and crashed the company's supplier computer network and downloaded highly confidential information, Toyota has alleged in a federal lawsuit.

In a complaint filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Lexington against Ibrahimshah Shahulhameed, the automaker said, "If this information were disseminated to competitors or otherwise made public, it would be highly damaging to Toyota and its suppliers, causing immediate and irreparable damage."