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VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800,000 Electric Vehicles (cyberinsider.com)

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If emphasis wasn't already concentrated on the security of these connected vehicles, major oversight obviously...

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Cariad emphasized that the data involved was not sensitive personal information like passwords or payment details, and no vehicles or services were impacted. Only certain vehicle data from online-connected cars were affected.

Mhm. This is the german version: https://www.heise.de/news/In-der-Cloud-abgelegt-Terabyte-an-Bewegungsdaten-von-VW-Elektroautos-gefunden-10220623.html

Summary: 10 TB of location data, half of it exact enough (10 cm) to allow conclusions to living conditions. Partially connected to app profiles with address and phone number.

this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2024

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