Customer data from 800,000 electric cars and owners exposed online

Volkswagen subsidiary Cariad left terabytes of customer vehicle telemetry — including precise geolocation for roughly 460,000 cars out of ~800,000 affected vehicles — exposed in misconfigured Amazon cloud storage. The Chaos Computer Club discovered the issue from a whistleblower, responsibly disclosed it on November 26, Cariad closed access the same day, and the company reports no evidence of third-party misuse; the exposed data could enable tracking of drivers and potentially re-identification despite pseudonymization.