Data from 800,000 Volkswagen EVs exposed

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
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.
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 data for 800,000 electric cars
For months, the location information of around 800,000 electric Volkswagen vehicles was available online due to a data leak, according to a report from the German news magazine Der Spiegel. The leak reportedly stemmed from the software running inside Volkswagen vehicles and could've allowed a bad actor to trace a driver’s exact movements,
Massive data leak at Volkswagen exposes locations of 800,000 EV drivers, for months
A massive data leak at software company Cariad, a Volkswagen subsidiary, reportedly left the personal data, including geolocation data, of some 800,000 EV owners online and accessible for months.
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.
VW leak exposed location information for over 800K EVs, Der Spiegel says
The location data of roughly 800,000 electric Volkswagen (VWAGY) cars has been available online for months as a result of a data leak, Der
Whistleblower finds unencrypted location data for 800,000 VW EVs
Connected cars are great—at least until some company leaves unencrypted location data on the Internet for anyone to find. That's what happened with over 800,000 EVs manufactured by the Volkswagen Group,
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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