American automaker Ford is investigated a data breach affecting 44,000 customers after prolific threat actor IntelBroker published the stolen data on a dark web hacking forum.
As the automotive industry continues to become more data-driven, a delicate balance must be struck between ongoing rollout of new or enhanced services and comprehensive security for data across the automobile, its operators and the interdependent layers of companies who work closely together to build today’s and tomorrow’s vehicles.
The automotive industry uses cryptography extensively both in external and internal communication, as well as other uses. Due to the relative rigidity of automotive products, there is an urgent need to fit the vehicles to the quantum computing era as soon as possible.
