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Volkswagen leak exposed location data for 800,000 electric cars

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Der Spiegel: Location information of 800,000 electric Volkswagen vehicles was available online due to a data leak.

The leak reportedly stemmed from the software running inside Volkswagen vehicles and could've allowed a bad actor to trace a driver’s exact movements.

Cariad, the Volkswagen subsidiary behind the automaker's software, made it possible for an attacker to access driver data housed in Amazon 's cloud storage service.

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formal

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English

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67

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