Cloud, not car: VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda data leak exposed traces of 800,000 vehicles

In December 2024 it was revealed that telemetry data from approximately 800,000 electric vehicles from Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda had been publicly available on the internet for several months. GPS logs, correspondence, phone numbers and drivers' home addresses leaked—not through a physical port in the car, but via vulnerable cloud infrastructure. The incident shows that the greatest risk to modern vehicles lies outside the car itself, in manufacturers' IT systems.

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