Toyota acknowledges a new data breach that will affect 2.6 lakh car owners

1 Jun 2023 , 11:51 AM

Toyota, a major manufacturer of automobiles in Japan, has acknowledged another instance in which the online presence of 260,000 car owners’ personal information for a decade.

After learning that roughly 2.15 million customers’ partial data was made public ‘due to misconfiguration of the Cloud environment’ for a decade, the business apologized last month.

The exposed data that Toyota discovered recently was ‘potentially accessible externally due to a misconfiguration’ of its associated cloud service.

The automaker promised to send a separate apology to customers whose information was compromised.

Since our last statement, we have put in place a system to monitor cloud configurations, but this event was also brought on by inadequate distribution and enforcement of data management standards, according to the business.

The system is currently in use to examine the settings of all cloud environments and to continuously monitor the settings.

Toyota expressed its sincere regret for any worry and difficulty this may have caused its customers and all other pertinent parties.

Toyota also acknowledged that between October 2016 and May 2023, personal data belonging to an undetermined number of consumers living outside of Japan, particularly in Asia, may have been compromised.

The business apologized and notified clients whose in-vehicle terminal ID, chassis number, location data, and time may have been compromised through email at the registered address last month.

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