Volkswagen Breach Exposes Data of 800K EV Customers

Volkswagen Group suffered a data leak impacting about 800,000 electric-vehicle owners across multiple European countries after a Cariad-managed Amazon cloud storage misconfiguration left sensitive personal and vehicle location data (including on/off timestamps, location history, emails, phone numbers and home addresses) publicly accessible for months; the exposure was discovered by an anonymous hacker and reported via the Chaos Computer Club, and Cariad closed access the same day it was alerted.