2024-12-31
[NEWS] A data leak at Volkswagen Group has sparked fresh concerns about EV privacy: Over the weekend — an anonymous whistleblower discovered that sensitive data for 800,000 EV owners across Audi, VW, Seat, and Skoda was exposed. This included GPS coordinates and battery charge
Carscoops
Sensitive data of over 800K VW Group EV customers, including GPS coordinates, was exposed on an unprotected AWS database for months before being reported
The sensitive information of VW, Audi, Seat, and Skoda EV owners was left exposed on an unprotected and misconfigured cloud storage system for months
2024-06-22
From a manager at a top 5 car dealer group: “Our executive team is preparing for months of being down — not weeks/days. It is truly a nightmare.”
Bloomberg
Source: a group that claims to have hacked car dealership software provider CDK Global has demanded tens of millions of dollars in ransom, and CDK plans to pay
- Eastern European cybercrime group demanding extortion payment — CDK down for several days as dealerships experience fallout
Automakers and dealers are implementing manual processes and getting creative in light of the CDK outage. Here's one example — a letter from Kia to its dealers: [image]
Bloomberg
Source: a group that claims to have hacked car dealership software provider CDK Global has demanded tens of millions of dollars in ransom, and CDK plans to pay
- Eastern European cybercrime group demanding extortion payment — CDK down for several days as dealerships experience fallout
One of the largest Chevrolet dealers in South Carolina closed. On a Friday. Unheard of. Day 3 of the CDK outage. (via @bradsales312) [image]
Bloomberg
Source: a group that claims to have hacked car dealership software provider CDK Global has demanded tens of millions of dollars in ransom, and CDK plans to pay
- Eastern European cybercrime group demanding extortion payment — CDK down for several days as dealerships experience fallout
2024-06-20
Another big cyber incident in Automotive this morning: This time it's CDK, the automotive software company. As a precaution to its customers, the company announced it's temporarily shutting down all its systems. And let's not forget... Last week, Findlay Auto Group, a large
BleepingComputer
CDK Global, which offers SaaS tools to 15K+ car dealerships in North America, shut down most of its systems to probe “a cyber incident”, and has restored some
Car dealership software-as-a-service provider CDK Global was hit by a massive cyberattack, causing the company to shut …