Security News > 2021 > June > Audi, Volkswagen customer data being sold on a hacking forum
Audi and Volkswagen customer data is being sold on a hacking forum after allegedly being stolen from an exposed Azure BLOB container.
Last week, the Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. disclosed a data breach after a vendor left customer data unsecured on the Internet between August 2019 and May 2021.
"The data included some or all of the following contact information about you: first and last name, personal or business mailing address, email address, or phone number," disclosed VWGoA in a data breach notification.
On June 14th, a known seller of data stolen during data breaches put the Audi and Volkswagen data up for sale on a popular hacking forum.
According to a post on the forum, the sold data consists of over 5 million records, with 3,862,231 records being leads and 1,792,278 records in the sales database.
According to Vice, who first reported on the sale of this data, the hacker said they accessed the exposed data in March after finding it in an unsecured Azure Blob container.