There are breaches and then there are really really embarrassing breaches. Jalopnik reports:
Things aren’t going so great at Volkswagen right now, and while the latest scandal likely won’t rise to the level of the diesel emissions scandal, a security lapse by VW’s in-house software developer Cariad did expose the locations of about 800,000 electric vehicles to hackers. The app owners used to access many of their cars’ features, including preheating the cars and checking their charge levels, reportedly left the data it gathered largely unprotected, Spiegel reports.
The places people go and the other data that could potentially be used to create a detailed profile of an owner and their movements shouldn’t be accessible by outsiders, but according to Spiegel, multiple terabytes of owner data were stored on Amazon’s cloud and accessible to hackers for months.
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