Nearly all of the leaked data was for owners or wannabe owners of the automaker s luxury brand of Audis. The data, mostly collected for sales and marketing, was exposed by a vendor used by Volkswagen, its Audi subsidiary and authorized dealers. Other buyers or prospective buyers got hit harder, since they had more sensitive data including Social Security numbers, dates of birth and driver’s license numbers stored on the leaky server. The company didn t explain why the leak continued up until last month as the unnamed vendor took two months to secure its server.
Source: https://threatpost.com/vw-data-3m-audi-drivers/166892/