The culprit was the VW car app developed by the company's subsidiary Cariad which stored customer charging data on the Amazon cloud. Poor security standards left such data unencry

In a major incident, the Volkswagen Group has suffered a massive data breach, one that has affected as many as 800,000 electric vehicle (EV) owners, according to German publication Spiegel. The leaked data contained sensitive information like GPS coordinates and battery charge levels.

There’s no indication anyone nefarious accessed the information before VW software provider Cariad patched the vulnerability.