Security News > 2022 > October > Toyota dev left key to customer info on public GitHub page for five years

Toyota has admitted it put 296,019 email addresses and customer management numbers of folks who signed up for its T-Connect assistance website at risk of online theft by bungling its security.

Once Toyota looked at that source code, the manufacturing giant realized this public-facing code repository contained an access key to a server that stored customer data.

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Upon discovering the GitHub repo, Toyota immediately made it private.

T-Connect offers features such as smartphone based digital keys to unlock Toyota vehicles, navigation services, and remote starting.

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