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Volkswagen leak exposed precise location data on thousands of vehicles across Europe for months

The data was found exposed on an Amazon cloud server, and contained precise location data on thousands of vehicles.

Volkswagen Group’s troubled automotive software unit Cariad left terabytes of customer data on around 800,000 electric Audi, Seat, Skoda, and Volkswagen vehicles exposed to the internet for months, reports Der Spiegel[in German], citing security researchers who learned about the data spill from an unnamed whistleblower. The researchers, who gave their talk at the Chaos Computer Club in Hamburg, Germany this week, said the exposed data also contained the precise location coordinates on more than half of the listed vehicles, around 460,000 cars. Cariad has struggled in recent years, plagued by delays to major software launches and a restructuring that has eliminated hundreds of jobs.

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