Volkswagen Group's troubled automotive software unit Cariad has been exposed to the Internet for months, the electric Audi; Seat About 800,000 Skoda and Volkswagen vehicles left behind terabytes of user data; Mirror (in German) Citing security researchers who learned about the leak from an anonymous whistleblower.
Who are the researchers? They talked. The data, unveiled this week at the Chaos Computer Club in Hamburg, Germany, said more than half of the registered vehicles and about 460,000 vehicles contained precise location coordinates. Germany Norway Sweden They say some of the location data is accurate to within a few centimeters, with the data showing most vehicles found in the United Kingdom (in descending order).
Cariad has fixed the flaw that led to the exposure and says there is no evidence to suggest that anyone other than security researchers had access to the exposure data. Cariad I had to struggle In recent years, It has faced delays in major software launches and restructuring delays that have eliminated hundreds of jobs.