{"id":18645,"date":"2025-04-29T07:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T05:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/source-of-data-are-electric-cars-vulnerable-to-cyber-spies-and-hackers\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T07:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T05:37:18","slug":"source-of-data-are-electric-cars-vulnerable-to-cyber-spies-and-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/source-of-data-are-electric-cars-vulnerable-to-cyber-spies-and-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Source of data\u2019: are electric cars vulnerable to cyber spies and hackers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British defence firms have reportedly warned staff not to connect their phones to Chinese-made EVs<\/p>\n<p>Mobile phones and desktop computers are longstanding targets for cyber spies \u2013 but how vulnerable are electric cars?<\/p>\n<p>On Monday the i newspaper claimed that British defence firms working for the UK government have warned staff against connecting or pairing their phones with Chinese-made electric cars, due to fears that Beijing could extract sensitive data from the devices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/apr\/29\/source-of-data-are-electric-cars-vulnerable-to-cyber-spies-and-hackers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/02f06f8a17ba1706e3beef9cb91659be2053879d\/0_400_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=515f8a4fb047e4a2e2ee49c0f197d8a6\" title=\"\u2018Source of data\u2019: are electric cars vulnerable to cyber spies and hackers?\" \/>British defence firms have reportedly warned staff not to connect their phones to Chinese-made EVs<br \/>\nMobile phones and desktop computers are longstanding targets for cyber spies \u2013 but how vulnerable are electric cars?<br \/>\nOn Monday the i newspaper claimed that British defence firms working for the UK government have warned staff against connecting or pairing their phones with Chinese-made electric cars, due to fears that Beijing could extract sensitive data from the devices. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British defence firms have reportedly warned staff not to connect their phones to Chinese-made EVs Mobile phones and desktop computers are longstanding targets for cyber spies \u2013 but how vulnerable are electric cars? On Monday the i newspaper claimed that British defence firms working for the UK government have warned staff against connecting or pairing &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/source-of-data-are-electric-cars-vulnerable-to-cyber-spies-and-hackers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Source of data\u2019: are electric cars vulnerable to cyber spies and hackers?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}