Security News > 2023 > September > Toyota says filled disk storage halted Japan-based factories
Toyota says a recent disruption of operations in Japan-based production plants was caused by its database servers running out of storage space.
On August 29th, it was reported that Toyota had to halt operations on 12 of its 14 Japan-based car assembly plants due to an undefined system malfunction.
As the storage was filled to capacity before the completion of the tasks, an error occurred, causing the system to shut down.
"To all concerned parties, we apologize for the concerns raised. We would like to reiterate that this system malfunction was not due to a cyber attack." - Toyota.
A seemingly minor oversight, like miscalculating necessary disk space for data migration or simply running out of storage space, can result in multimillion-dollar losses for major organizations.
Toyota has had a rough year so far in terms of IT system security and data management.