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VW software unit exposes location data of 800,000 EVs
Chaos Computer Club found a misconfigured Cariad cloud exposing data from about 800,000 VW group electric vehicles, some with precise locations.
- Organisation
- Volkswagen (Cariad)
- Disclosed
- 27 December 2024
- Affected
- 800,000
- Data
- Vehicle location data, owner contact details
- Attacker
- None (exposure)
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- CM-Alliance ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “VW software unit exposes location data of 800,000 EVs”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 27 Dec 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-12-27-volkswagen-cariad-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CM-Alliance, https://www.cm-alliance.com/cybersecurity-blog/december-2024-major-cyber-attacks-data-breaches-ransomware-attacks.
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