[HN Gopher] Volkswagen hack: 3M customers have had their informa...
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       Volkswagen hack: 3M customers have had their information stolen
        
       Author : LinuxBender
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2021-06-12 17:49 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (lite.cnn.com)
        
       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | Sure makes me want to buy a car that charges me $8.50 an hour for
       | self-driving.
        
         | sschueller wrote:
         | Tesla has remote root access to every car. If they get hacked
         | it will be a disaster.
        
           | claaams wrote:
           | When*
        
         | slver wrote:
         | No, you should buy the car that charges you $10k for self-
         | driving and doesn't give you self-driving.
        
       | c7DJTLrn wrote:
       | Sometimes I feel like a paranoid weirdo emailing companies to
       | delete my information. Sometimes I'll even have to be a bit
       | forceful and put pressure on them. But when even the big guys
       | like Volkswagen can't properly protect PII, how can a little
       | online shop?
        
         | pjerem wrote:
         | I'm not sure that size matters. I think what matters is if the
         | company cares about protecting your data and why it's needed.
         | 
         | I don't even think it's difficult to protect the data of your
         | customers.
         | 
         | Sure, being immune to any targeted attack is really hard, but
         | not being an easy prey is just about caring a minimum about
         | your responsibilities and thinking about what should go where.
         | 
         | From my experience, when marketing department enters the game,
         | that's when it becomes hard because they just don't care about
         | the data they hold. It's just random excel files and numbers
         | that they work with.
        
         | kabes wrote:
         | In big companies this data tends to be spread around in tens of
         | databases managed by a lot of different teams spread across the
         | globe. And they're a big target for hackers. I'd rather trust
         | the little online shop using some off-the-shelf webshop
         | solution.
        
       | abledon wrote:
       | "babys first databreach" will become the norm in 2030s
        
       | OldGoodNewBad wrote:
       | Why was 3M storing their data on Volkswagen's servers? /s
        
       | YuccaGloriosa wrote:
       | Is this the future of PI hacks...company pays for credit
       | monitoring...considers matter closed.
        
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