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Volkswagen Data Breach: 800,000 Electric Car Owners’ Data Leaked (cybersecuritynews.com)
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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.

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[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago

That just shifts the privacy problems from the automaker to the smartphone OS maker.

I use GrapheneOS which only within the last year got Android Auto support, and even then it requires giving Google shit a lot of deep access to stuff I really don't want to give.

Carplay and Android Auto should not be the only options (like when the car native nav is requires for stuff like battery preconditioning)

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