Indecent photos of female car owners are leaked, and the alarm bell of new energy vehicles is ringing!

At the end of February this year, Gaohe Automobile announced that it would suspend work and production, and said that it only had a three-month window for self-help. Now that there is less than a month left, what is going on with Gao He?

At the beginning of April, it was rumored on the Internet that the AVATR brand of Changan Automobile contacted Gaohe or reached a cooperation agreement, and it is expected that Gaohe will resume work this month. But the news was quickly refuted by AVATAR. For Gao He, the original glimmer of vitality has been extinguished.

What once again brought Gaohe into the public eye was no longer the acquisition of Gaohe by a certain company, but an incident about the leakage of the owner's privacy information. Recently, it was reported that the indecent photos taken by the camera in the car were widely circulated among car owners and social media.

In the photo, a beautiful woman is sitting in the car doing intimate things, and the lower left corner of the photo shows the Gaohe logo, date, time, address and other information. After this photo was leaked, some people said that it was Gaohe Automobile that was hacked in the background, and some people said that the owner took it himself and sent it to the Internet.

There are many opinions on the Internet, and it is inevitable that the leakage of user privacy data will once again fall into a crisis of confidence in Gaohe, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. In this regard, Gaohe issued a statement on April 9, saying that there is no official acquisition or leakage of relevant images, and the background of Gaohe car machine cannot remotely access the local image of the camera from the technical and legal perspectives.

At the same time, Gaohe Automobile said that for the infringement of user privacy, Gaohe has reported to the police and will take necessary legal measures to protect the brand and reputation of Gaohe.

It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that Gaohe has had a user information leakage incident. As early as 2022, it was revealed that the dashcam can receive signals from other Hi-Tech vehicles through the interconnection of the car owner and read the content of the dashcam, which has potential information security risks.

At that time, Gaohe responded that this function is an integral part of vehicle-road cooperative travel, and it is turned off by default when it leaves the factory. To enable this function, the user needs to confirm the privacy policy twice. This function cannot be turned on after the vehicle is powered off.

For such a statement, 51 Jun doesn't know what you think about the new energy vehicle owners. Nowadays, it is a common phenomenon to place cameras in new energy vehicles, and the user's driving behavior may be detected.

In December 2022, it was rumored that NIO had user data leaked. In the same month, NIO issued an apology statement saying that some information and data before August 2021 were stolen by hackers, who extorted 15.67 million yuan worth of bitcoin from NIO.

An apology statement hides inner unease, if the user's data is not maintained, once the leakage occurs, it will have a serious impact on the car owner and even the company.

According to incomplete statistics, since 2020, there have been more than 280 malicious data attacks on affiliated enterprises such as vehicle manufacturing and Internet of Vehicles information service provision.

Compared with information leakage such as mobile apps, car user information includes family, personal financial and other information, which is more sensitive. For new car manufacturers, even if part of the data of 100,000 vehicles is leaked, the scale of the impact is not small. What's more, the sales scale of new energy vehicles in 2023 has reached 9.495 million units, and this data is expected to grow.

When it comes to car safety, the focus of the industry is still on the safety of passengers in the car, and there seems to be little mention of the security of data information.

From the perspective of life safety, passenger safety is related to the lifeline of drivers and occupants, although it should be put in the first place, but from the perspective of intelligence, data security is also one of the most important parts.

In April 2022, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China and other five departments jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Further Strengthening the Construction of Safety System for New Energy Vehicle Enterprises". It clearly states that new energy vehicle companies should earnestly fulfill their data security protection obligations and ensure data security.

At present, most car companies have formed a relatively mature data security management system, and more than 80% of vehicle companies have built their own data security teams, forming a parallel management link with the enterprise business line.

However, data security is still a challenge because data is distributed throughout the R&D, production, and distribution of enterprises, and faces risks such as external hacker attacks, third-party data exchange, and low data accuracy due to different business departments that may be used by different business departments.

51Jun believes that multiple data breaches have shown that how to protect user data is very important for car companies. As a user, it is also worth pondering how to improve their privacy protection and whether they should overly trust the privacy protection of car companies.

It is hoped that car companies can truly shoulder their responsibilities and eliminate data security risks. Rather than blindly promoting high-definition cameras as selling points, it is worth paying attention to whether the user privacy involved behind it is truly secure. What do you think about the leakage of user data of car companies?

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