Leaking means that the supplier [actively] shared information, as opposed to being [passively] hacked. Do you know if this is what actually happened?

I am a Chrysler Capital customer; I hope my info was not leaked...

 

It's generally used interchangeably in tech news but I'll use a different word.

 

Information accessed that was not supposed to be accessed is a hack. If it was trivial or required 100 steps and 2 years of planning, the data was hacked as it was accessed w/o express permission or intent to be made available.

While most people think of hack as malicious or required some kind of super geek, in reality is gaining access to something that you were not supposed to have access to (e.g. "
use a computer to gain unauthorized access to data in a system." -- dictionary.com)

 

Information accessed that was not supposed to be accessed is a hack. If it was trivial or required 100 steps and 2 years of planning, the data was hacked as it was accessed w/o express permission or intent to be made available.

While most people think of hack as malicious or required some kind of super geek, in reality is gaining access to something that you were not supposed to have access to (e.g. "
use a computer to gain unauthorized access to data in a system." -- dictionary.com)

Yup, I just changed it to “stolen,” which is I think accurate.
A lot of morons store stuff like this in clear text. That's almost asking for theft. But it's really hard to encrypt things you're constantly using, without not using it. Wait, did that make sense?

Anyway, things like this happen constantly. To me it's worse that they appear to sell location and driving-style data, without your permission, but heck, so do cellphone companies. It should all be illegal but good luck getting a right to privacy today.

 

Sadly, I would assume it does. I never did when I ran allpar and I don't on the sites I own. However, the privacy policy is clearly stated and in theory nobody’s street address, movements, phone number, or such is ever sold.