There’s no indication anyone nefarious accessed the information before VW software provider Cariad patched the vulnerability. A security oversight by software company Cariad left the location data of ...

Volkswagen's ex-chief executive Martin Winterkorn was reportedly informed about the car firm's efforts to cheat emissions tests – and a plan to make only a partial disclosure to US authorities – seven ...

German automaker Volkswagen isn't having a great time. The company is planning to cut capacity at five factories, reducing production by about 700,000 vehicles, while also laying off more than 35,000 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG's U.S. unit said a data breach at a vendor impacted more than 3.3 million customers and prospective buyers in North America. Nearly all those impacted were current ...

Volkswagen’s recent data breach, affecting sensitive information from over 15 million vehicles, was traced back to inadequate security measures. Revealed by security analyst Flüpke at the Chaos ...

VW is far from the only carmaker that has experienced security problems stemming from the flood of data. In January 2023, a team led by the Omaha, Nebraska-based hacker Sam Curry, who was 23 at the ...

Many people worry about hackers stealing their personal data, but sometimes, the worst breaches come not from shadowy cybercriminals but straight from the companies we trust. According to a new report ...

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EU officials knew about German car manufacturer VW’s dodgy emissions data five years before the scandal broke, according to new claims by German media. Internal documents from October 2010 appear to ...

HAMBURG -- German prosecutors are investigating whether Volkswagen employees deleted data that could be harmful to the company before the carmaker admitted to U.S. authorities that it had cheated ...

Volkswagen and Audi, VW’s luxury brand, have been hit by a data breach that exposed the contact information and, in some cases, personal details, like driver license numbers, of customers in the ...