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Toyota confirms third-party data breach impacting customers
2024-08-19 20:51

Toyota confirmed that customer data was exposed in a third-party data breach after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of stolen data on a hacking forum. [...]

Toyota confirms breach after stolen data leaks on hacking forum
2024-08-19 20:51

Toyota confirmed that its network was breached after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of data stolen from the company's systems on a hacking forum. [...]

Toyota warns customers of data breach exposing personal, financial info
2023-12-11 15:32

Toyota Financial Services is warning customers it suffered a data breach, stating that sensitive personal and financial data was exposed in the attack. Toyota Financial Services, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, is a global entity with a presence in 90% of the markets where Toyota sells its cars, providing auto financing to its customers.

Toyota confirms breach after Medusa ransomware threatens to leak data
2023-11-16 19:02

Toyota Financial Services has confirmed that it detected unauthorized access on some of its systems in Europe and Africa after Medusa ransomware claimed an attack on the company. Toyota Financial Services, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, is a global entity with a presence in 90% of the markets where Toyota sells its cars, providing auto financing to its customers.

Toyota says filled disk storage halted Japan-based factories
2023-09-06 13:47

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.

Toyota Japan back on the road after probably-not-cyber attack halted production
2023-08-30 03:58

Malfunction took 14 plants offline for 36 hours. Oh, what a … nah, too obvious Toyota Japan has recovered from what it's described as a "malfunction in the production order system" that halted...

Toyota admits to yet another cloud leak
2023-06-05 03:30

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.

Toyota finds more misconfigured servers leaking customer info
2023-05-31 14:46

Toyota Motor Corporation has discovered two additional misconfigured cloud services that leaked car owners' personal information for over seven years. This finding came after the Japanese carmaker conducted a thorough investigation on all cloud environments managed by Toyota Connected Corporation after previously discovering a misconfigured server that exposed the location data of over 2 million customers for ten years.

Toyota's bungling of customer privacy is becoming a pattern
2023-05-15 02:26

In brief Japanese automaker Toyota has admitted yet again to mishandling customer data - this time saying it exposed information on more than two million Japanese customers for the past decade, thanks to a misconfigured cloud environment. The exposed data belongs to almost the entire Japanese customer base that had signed up for Toyota's T-Connect driver assist product, and users of the G-Link service - a similar product for Toyota's luxury subsidiary Lexus.

Toyota: Car location data of 2 million customers exposed for ten years
2023-05-12 14:50

Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach on its cloud environment that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers for ten years, between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023. While there is no evidence that the data was misused, unauthorized users could have accessed the historical data and possibly the real-time location of 2.15 million Toyota cars.