More Than 150 Gigabytes of Manufacturing Data Found Exposed on Web
WINDSOR, ONTARIO—A misconfigured data transfer server left sensitive data from big name car makers and their employees wide open to the Internet earlier this month, a security vendor has revealed. Itnews.com reports that documents belonging to more than 100 manufacturing companies were exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to Level One Robotics, which is an engineering service provider that specialises in automation process and assembly for OEMs, Tier 1 automotive suppliers and end-users.
Among the companies whose data was exposed were divisions of Volkswagen, Chrysler, Ford, Toyota, General Motors, Tesla and ThyssenKrupp.
There was no indication that any of the data had been accessed by third parties.