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ppExplore ppSECTIONSppMOREppThreat actors have claimed to have uploaded data pertaining to Tesla electric vehicle EV charging stationspp
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ppShare this article onppThe incident was claimed by CyberNs members IntelBroker and EnergyWeaponUser who originally said it was a Tesla EV charging station database containing files that belonged to TeslappHowever thanks to a tipoff by researcher DarkWebInformer and IntCyberDigest the threat actors amended the listing to say it was a random 3rd party company which was hosting and holding their information that owns the data and was breachedppIntelBroker and EnergyWeaponUser Have Claimed to have Leaked Tesla EV Charging Stationhttpstcozbi1FfAjnEpp
ppIntelBroker wrote that the data affected those in the Middle East and the United Arab Emirates UAE and that there were 116000 rows of data including full names locations payment information car make and model and car VIN numbersppHowever in the data sample posted by the threat actors the data largely pertained to people in the United States territory of Puerto RicoppAdditionally as pointed out by researchers at CyberNews Tesla only tracks data relating to its vehicles and stations while the sample lists cars from Audi Porsche Volvo and TeslappSpeaking with IntCyberDigest before discovering the data did not belong to Tesla IntelBroker said that it was really bizarre how we found the datappThe threat actor said he used hardcoded credentials to traverse a number of systems before stumbling upon four Azure storage buckets containing xlsxfiles with customer data They then just sorted from the largest to the smallest and downloaded themppIntCyberDigest then revealed that the data appeared not to come from Tesla but instead from a firm called Numocity a manufacturer of EV charging software middleware smart charges and moreppNumocity has yet to publicly acknowledge the incident as has Tesla or its CEO Elon MuskppLast year Tesla blamed two former employees for a data breach that affected 75000 of its staffppIn a notice filed with the Maine AttorneyGeneral on 18 August 2023 and issued to Tesla staff the company announced that two exemployees were to blame for the data breach that occurred in May resulting in the personal information of 75735 individuals being compromisedppThe breach was first outed by Handelsblatt a German publication which announced that 100 gigabytes worth of data had been stolen and leaked by a disgruntled former employee who utilised their position as a service technician to access the datappHandelsblatt told Tesla that the data included identifiable information including names addresses phone numbers and Social Security numbers This data included Elon Musks own social security number according to the publicationppOther data included private email addresses employees salaries customer bank details and confidential information regarding Tesla productionpp
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ppExplore ppSECTIONSppMOREppThreat actors have claimed to have uploaded data pertaining to Tesla electric vehicle EV charging stationspp
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ppShare this article onppThe incident was claimed by CyberNs members IntelBroker and EnergyWeaponUser who originally said it was a Tesla EV charging station database containing files that belonged to TeslappHowever thanks to a tipoff by researcher DarkWebInformer and IntCyberDigest the threat actors amended the listing to say it was a random 3rd party company which was hosting and holding their information that owns the data and was breachedppIntelBroker and EnergyWeaponUser Have Claimed to have Leaked Tesla EV Charging Stationhttpstcozbi1FfAjnEpp
ppIntelBroker wrote that the data affected those in the Middle East and the United Arab Emirates UAE and that there were 116000 rows of data including full names locations payment information car make and model and car VIN numbersppHowever in the data sample posted by the threat actors the data largely pertained to people in the United States territory of Puerto RicoppAdditionally as pointed out by researchers at CyberNews Tesla only tracks data relating to its vehicles and stations while the sample lists cars from Audi Porsche Volvo and TeslappSpeaking with IntCyberDigest before discovering the data did not belong to Tesla IntelBroker said that it was really bizarre how we found the datappThe threat actor said he used hardcoded credentials to traverse a number of systems before stumbling upon four Azure storage buckets containing xlsxfiles with customer data They then just sorted from the largest to the smallest and downloaded themppIntCyberDigest then revealed that the data appeared not to come from Tesla but instead from a firm called Numocity a manufacturer of EV charging software middleware smart charges and moreppNumocity has yet to publicly acknowledge the incident as has Tesla or its CEO Elon MuskppLast year Tesla blamed two former employees for a data breach that affected 75000 of its staffppIn a notice filed with the Maine AttorneyGeneral on 18 August 2023 and issued to Tesla staff the company announced that two exemployees were to blame for the data breach that occurred in May resulting in the personal information of 75735 individuals being compromisedppThe breach was first outed by Handelsblatt a German publication which announced that 100 gigabytes worth of data had been stolen and leaked by a disgruntled former employee who utilised their position as a service technician to access the datappHandelsblatt told Tesla that the data included identifiable information including names addresses phone numbers and Social Security numbers This data included Elon Musks own social security number according to the publicationppOther data included private email addresses employees salaries customer bank details and confidential information regarding Tesla productionpp
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