Privacy

Cariad, the automotive software firm of Volkswagen Group, had data from nearly 800,000 Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda, and Seat electric vehicles inadvertently leaked by a misconfigured Amazon cloud storage, according to BleepingComputer.

Major U.S. aerospace and defense firm General Dynamics has confirmed having dozens of employee benefits accounts breached following a phishing attack in October, SecurityWeek reports.

Texas-based McMurry University had data from almost 18,000 individuals compromised as a result of a June data breach, Cybernews reports.

Tennessee-based substance abuse treatment service provider American Addiction Centers had information from 422,424 individuals exfiltrated during a breach of its internal servers in September, which was initially disclosed to have affected 410,747 people, according to SecurityWeek.

Cybernews reports that Indian fintech firm FatakPay had more than 27 million files with Know Your Customer documents and other sensitive loan application information compromised by an unsecured Amazon AWS S3 bucket.

Hapn, a GPS tracking company formerly known as Spytec, was discovered by a security researcher to be impacted by a website vulnerability that resulted in the inadvertent exposure of data from more than 8.600 GPS trackers, reports TechCrunch.