Data from 800,000 Volkswagen EVs exposed

Volkswagen Hit by Massive Data Scandal: 800,000 Electric Cars Exposed
Volkswagen faces major challenges as it deals with data exposure and job cuts while restructuring to reduce costs and production capacity.
Volkswagen leak exposed location data for 800,000 electric cars
Der Spiegel found that Cariad, the Volkswagen subsidiary behind the automaker's software, made it possible for an attacker to find and access driver data housed in Amazon’s cloud storage service. The data,
Volkswagen leak exposed precise location data on thousands of vehicles across Europe for months
The data was found exposed on an Amazon cloud server, and contained precise location data on thousands of vehicles.
Volkswagen leak exposed location of 800,000 electric car drivers for months
The leak affected roughly 800,000 Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, and Skoda electric cars, but for roughly 460,000 of them, including Volkswagen's ID.3 and ID.4 models, the data was very detailed, and included locations where the car was switched on and off.
Insecure Database Exposes Location Data of 460,000 Volkswagen EVs
Data on 800,000 VW electric cars sat exposed for months, including the precise location of nearly 460,000 EVs. It does not appear that any of that info was accessed by bad actors, though.
Location data from 800,000 Volkswagen vehicles exposed by cloud misconfiguration
A misconfiguration in a cloud environment made data from hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen AG vehicles available online, multiple publications reported today. The issue was brought to the attention of German newspaper Der Spiegel by a whistleblower.
Location data for 800,000 cars exposed online for months
A data leak led to around 800,000 electric cars having their location exposed online for several months.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox
Data from 800,000 Volkswagen EVs exposed after security lapse
Volkswagen has become embroiled in another scandal, this time due to easily accessible data from 800,000 electric vehicles.
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