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•VW Left the Location Data of 800,000 EV Owners Publicly Accessible for Months: Leak
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Data of 800,000 electric vehicle owners was left unprotected and essentially available to anyone online.
Location information and personal data of those owners were freely open and accessible on the internet for months .
The data dump included log-in credentials to an Amazon cloud storage facility.
Of the affected vehicles, 300,000 were in Germany .
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