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Wed Nov 24 2021

Volkswagen suffered a data breach through a third party

"A data breach at a Volkswagen vendor has impacted millions of customers and prospective car purchasers across North America.

The breach occurred after information gathered by the vendor between 2014 and 2019 for sales and marketing purposes was stored electronically in an unsecured file for years."

Source and full article; VW Vendor Leaves Data Unsecured - Infosecurity Magazine (infosecurity-magazine.com)

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Jimmy Pommerenke

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Jimmy is the founder, CEO and CTO of Ceeyu. Prior to founding Ceeyu, Jimmy was responsible for cybersecurity programs at large financial institutions and consulting company EY. Jimmy started his career as a security engineer. His duties included installing and managing firewalls, scanning infrastructure for vulnerabilities, and performing pen testing and ethical hacking.

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