Whoops: Volkswagen Leaks Sensitive Data Of 800,000 Electric Vehicle Owners

Whoops: Volkswagen Leaks Sensitive Data Of 800,000 Electric Vehicle Owners

Back in 2023 Mozilla issued a report indicating that automakers have some of the worst privacy and security standards in all of tech, routinely hoovering up oceans of consumer behavior and phone data then failing to adequately secure it. Senator Ron Wyden has been at the forefront of calls for Congress to shake off corruption and, you know, actually do something useful about it. The U.S. Congress is too corrupt to function, so that never actual…

After warning strikes against layoffs at Volkswagen's German plants, the concern faced further problems at the end of the year. German magazine Der Spiegel reported on a serious security breach at Cariad, the Volkswagen Group's software division. The flaw resulted in the disclosure of sensitive data on 800,000 electric cars that used online charging services. Volkswagen is said to have a total of 14 million vehicles connected via Internet applic…

Volkswagen Data Leak: 800,000 Electric Car Owners At Risk

Volkswagen Group suffered a significant data breach in December 2024, compromising the personal information of approximately 800,000 electric vehicle (EV) owners. The compromised databases contained sensitive data from Volkswagen, SEAT, Audi, and Škoda vehicles. Alarmingly, some geo-location data was so exact that it could locate places to within a few centimetres. A misconfigured Amazon cloud storage system resulted in the exposure of critical …