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Volkswagen’s Carad app has been exposed in a big way that has left 800,000 EV owners exposed, according to reports German edition Mirror online. The leak allowed personal information to be left online for months, including travel information and contact information.
This included accurate location data for 460,000 vehicles manufactured by VW, Seat and Audi. According to reports, the information was obtained through Amazon’s cloud storage platform. There is a silver lining here. Carad says that, despite his presence, no malicious actors got hold of what was revealed. Fraud watchdog Chaos Computer Club (CCC) spotted the leak on November 26 and notified the company.
VW said in a statement it was reviewed by a German press agency DPA that the error has been corrected, so that the information is no longer available. Additionally, the company noted that the leak only affected location and information, as passwords and payments were not affected. It added that only select vehicles registered for online services were at risk, saying “the data was accessed in a very complex, multi-layered way.”
According to Volkswagen, the CCC hacker group was able to access vehicle data that did not allow any conclusions about specific customers. This was done “only by going through a series of security measures, which required a great deal of skill and time.”
In other words, affected customers need not worry too much about their sites being harvested by dark web ne’er-do-wells. The company has begun an investigation into the matter and will make a decision on other options once it is complete.
Like modern cars find more information onlineit opens them up to many new dangers. It was last year that TikTok’s viral problem taught Hyundai users how to destroy their carswhich caused more than a dozen accidents and eight deaths.
