Auto manufacturer VW has experienced a data leak
2024-12-30 | tags: thoughts
Excerpt from the Spiegel article. The highlighted text, in German, reads: 'Eine mehrere Terabyte umfassende Datenmenge zu rund 800.000 E-Autos war über Monate in einem Amazon-Cloudspeicher weitgehend ungeschützt zugänglich.'  Summarized and loosely translated: about a terabyte of data, on ~800,000 cars, sat unprotected in an Amazon cloud storage bucket.

According to an article in Der Spiegel, Volkswagen has experienced a leak of vehicle location+owner data.

Consider this your periodic reminder to check permissions on those cloud storage buckets.

(Or maybe, don't collect this data at all? You can't leak data you don't have. "Datensparsamkeit," and all that.)

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