German publication Spiegel revealed that more than half of the vehicles (460,000) were sharing precise GPS data. Most of the ...

The Refreshed 2024 Volkswagen Atlas Is Worth Your Time The places people go and the other data that could potentially be used to create a detailed profile of an owner and their movements shouldn’t be ...

On the third day of the congress in Hamburg, the speakers were clearly critical of the system: the lack of CumEx consequences ...

Apparently, detailed customer data on hundreds of thousands of VW vehicles could be viewed unencrypted online for months.

Data privacy is a concern around the world these days — but for Volkswagen, the matter just became a bit more serious. A new ...

Connected cars are great—at least until some company leaves unencrypted location data on the Internet for anyone to find.

The latest round of sensitive information leaks comes from Volkswagen. German news outlet Spiegel reported this week that the ...

A massive data leak at software company Cariad, a Volkswagen subsidiary, reportedly left the personal data, including geolocation data, of some 800,000 EV owners online and accessible for months.

Cariad, VW Group’s software arm, made this classic error. Personal data from hundreds of thousands of cars sat unsecured for about six months. Volkswagen was ...

The leak also included the emails, addresses, and phone numbers of drivers in some cases, Der Spiegel reports.