Security News > 2023 > June > Toyota admits to yet another cloud leak

Infosec in brief Japanese automaker Toyota is again apologizing for spilling customer records online due to a misconfigured cloud environment - the same explanation it gave when the same thing happened a couple of weeks ago.

Toyota said it had no evidence the data had been misused, and that it discovered the misconfigured cloud system while performing a wider investigation of Toyota Connected Corporation's cloud systems.

TC was also the site of two previous Toyota cloud security failures: one identified in September 2022, and another in mid-May of 2023.

The data lately exposed was innocuous if you believe Toyota - just vehicle device IDs and some map data update files were included.

Toyota said it implemented a system to monitor its cloud environments after finding the breach last month, and that it would continue to monitor said system to discover any more breaches that may be waiting to be found.

Affected customers are being notified, and Toyota has also set up a call center to field questions about yet another failure to be a good data steward.

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