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The VW Group Data Breach is a Business Problem, not an IT Failure.

by Nick Selby, Huw Rogers

In December 2024, the Chaos Computer Club revealed that VW Group’s software unit Cariad exposed 9.5TB of sensitive data affecting 800,000 VW, Seat, Audi, and Skoda owners. The breach included personal information and location histories that, despite Cariad’s claims otherwise, were easily tied by researchers to individual customers.