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VW assumes that customers and prospective buyers of the Audi subsidiary are particularly affected.
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Herndon New trouble for Volkswagen in North America: Due to a breakdown at a business partner, data from more than 3.3 million customers was unsecured on the Internet for over a year.
According to current knowledge, VW is assuming that customers and prospective buyers of the Audi subsidiary will be affected, said a company spokesman on Friday. The US blog “Techcrunch” had previously reported on the data leak and published a letter to customers and a corresponding letter from Audi’s lawyers.
According to VW, the majority of the data is only contact information. This part of the leak includes names, e-mail addresses, telephone and in some cases vehicle numbers of around 3.1 million Audi customers in the USA and 163,000 in Canada as well as 3300 VW customers in the US.
However, more confidential data from around 90,000 Audi customers were also unprotected. 95 percent of these cases are about driver’s license numbers, but a small proportion also concern highly sensitive information such as US social security numbers.
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