Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsVolkswagen
Claimed by Stormous · listed 7 months ago
Status timeline
- Listed
Oct 27, 2025
- Data leaked
At a glance
- Group
- Stormous
- Status
- Data leaked
- Country
- Germany
- Sector
- Manufacturing
- Listed on leak site
- Oct 27, 2025
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileVolkswagen Group is one of the world's largest automotive manufacturers, headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Group comprises multiple major brands including Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini, SEAT, CUPRA, Škoda, and Ducati, among others. It operates globally, delivering millions of vehicles annually and employing over 650,000 people worldwide.
- Industry
- Automotive Manufacturing & Mobility
- Address
- Berliner Ring 2, 38440 Wolfsburg, Germany
- Employees
- 100000+
- Founded
- 1937
Attack summary
Severity: high — Volkswagen CarNet is a connected-vehicle telematics platform that likely holds vehicle owner PII, location data, and vehicle telemetry at significant scale. Confirmed exfiltration from such a system at a major global automotive OEM constitutes high severity, potentially escalating to critical if personal location/vehicle data for large numbers of customers is confirmed exfiltrated.Stormous claims to have breached Volkswagen's CarNet connected-vehicle system and accessed internal data; the disclosure status is listed as data_published, though no ransom amount or specific data volume was stated in the post.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- CarNet system internal data
- Connected vehicle platform records
What the group claims
CarNet system breach Internal data accessed
Sources
- Victim sitevolkswagen-group.com
Source
Indexed 7 months agoThis page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.
