This meant that it was possible to see exactly where and when a particular car had been driven.
The vulnerability was in the cloud service used by the car manufacturer to upload data from vehicles on the road.
Anyone connected to the car’s Wi-Fi network could potentially gain access to the car’s other systems as well if they are not properly separated.
When the car is constantly connected to the outside world, it also invites the outside world into the car,” says Srijita Basu.
Was it in the design of the IT function, in the programming or in the software running on the car’s computer chips?