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Volkswagen leak exposed precise location data on thousands of vehicles across Europe for months

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Summary: The data was found exposed on an Amazon cloud server, and contained precise location data on thousands of vehicles.

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Volkswagen Group’s troubled automotive software unit Cariad left terabytes of customer data on around 800,000 electric Audi, Seat, Skoda, and Volkswage

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