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Volkswagen Data Breach: 800,000 Electric Car Owners’ Data Leaked (cybersecuritynews.com)

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Volkswagen has inadvertently exposed the personal information of 800,000 electric vehicle owners, including their location data and contact details. The breach, which occurred due to a misconfiguration in the systems of Cariad, VW’s software subsidiary, left sensitive data stored on Amazon Cloud publicly accessible for months. The exposed information included precise GPS data, which allowed […] The post Volkswagen Data Breach: 800,000 Electric Car Owners’ Data Leaked appeared first on Cyber Security News.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As far as can tell it only affects cars with Cariad software which seems to be used by VW group EVs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Right, but VW is fairly unique amongst the traditional manufactures after diesel-gate. Their new development is on EVs. If diesel-gate hadn't happened then this new software platform with the same issue would have been on diesel cars.