Mercedes-Benz USA disclosed that one of its vendors has leaked customer information out of its cloud storage system. The company credited an external security researcher for giving it the heads-up. The vendor was apparently collecting Social-Security numbers, dates of birth and other highly sensitive information from customers. There’s no evidence of the carmaker s systems having been tampered with, nor that customer records were misused, the automaker said. The data is associated with a third-party vendor that manages digital sales and marketing activities for customers and interested buyers.
Source: https://threatpost.com/mercedes-benz-customer-data-flies-out-the-window/167302/