Already facing significant headwinds, VW has now been hit by a data protection nightmare. Location data from 800,000 electric vehicles and contact info from owners was accessible unprotected on the ...
A data leak led to around 800,000 Volkswagen (VW) electric vehicles (EVs) having their location exposed online for several months, according to a report by German news magazine Der Spiegel.
The misconfigured cloud environment, which Cariad hosted on Amazon Web Services, contained location data from about 800,000 electric vehicles. The dataset includes “precise” information about 460,000 ...