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Unprotected VW Data Exposed Locations Of 800,000 EVs


A security oversight left the location data of 800,000 VW Group electric cars in Europe exposed on the open internet for several months.

A security oversight by software company Cariad left the location data of 800,000 VW Group electric cars in Europe exposed on the open internet for several months, a new report claims. The hacker group, the Chaos Computer Club, informed Cariad about the vulnerability, which quickly patched the issue. Cariad told Spiegel that the vulnerability was a “misconfiguration” and that the company doesn’t merge data that would allow someone to create a profile about a person.

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