cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/21710275
Volkswagen has inadvertently exposed the personal information of 800,000 electric vehicle owners, including their location data and contact details. The breach, which occurred due to a misconfiguration in the systems of Cariad, VW’s software subsidiary, left sensitive data stored on Amazon Cloud publicly accessible for months. The exposed information included precise GPS data, which allowed […] The post Volkswagen Data Breach: 800,000 Electric Car Owners’ Data Leaked appeared first on Cyber Security News.
If VW put a petrol engine in these cars, the breach would have been identical. The fact these are EVs is incidental to the story. Why is it part of the headline?
As far as can tell it only affects cars with Cariad software which seems to be used by VW group EVs.
Right, but VW is fairly unique amongst the traditional manufactures after diesel-gate. Their new development is on EVs. If diesel-gate hadn’t happened then this new software platform with the same issue would have been on diesel cars.