Breaches and incidents
Unnamed car dealership in Landshut: customer data accessed at external IT provider
Idowa reports (8 Oct) that a Landshut car dealership emailed customers on Wednesday evening warning of unauthorized access to customer data, apparently at...
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Reported by a reputable outlet, citing the company
What happened
- Idowa reports (8 Oct) that a Landshut car dealership emailed customers on Wednesday evening warning of unauthorized access to customer data, apparently at an external IT service provider for car dealerships; the Bavarian data protection authority (BayLDA) confirmed a security incident was reported. The rest of the article is paywalled.
- Root cause: not disclosed.
- No attacker named.
- Customers were warned by email; the dealership and provider are not named in the readable text.