Over 800,000 electric car owners and drivers may have had private info exposed online
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James Thompson
Volkswagen Group, a major automotive manufacturer, faced a data breach affecting 800,000 vehicles, with 300,000 based in Germany. The breach involved sensitive GPS location data being shared by over half of the affected models. The subsidiary responsible for the breach, Cariad, exposed the data in an unsecured Amazon cloud storage folder. Following the discovery by an ethical hacking organization, Volkswagen promptly responded to the issue, acknowledging poor configurations were at fault. The incident highlighted the importance of secure data handling in an era where customer privacy is increasingly under scrutiny.
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