Toyota confirms another years-long data leak...

[Rick Law]

The more connected, the more the problem...

"Toyota confirms another years-long data leak, this time exposing at least 260,000 car owners..."

This is reported by Reuters, but I don't have subscription to the actual Reuters article (link in reference).  The excerpts are from another sources.
^{https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota-flags-possible-leak-customer-data-some-countries-asia-oceania-2023-05-31/}


TechCrunch:
...The car maker said in a notice that it will notify about 2.15 million customers whose personal and vehicle information were left exposed to the internet after a “cloud misconfiguration” was discovered recently in April. Toyota said that the exposed data includes: registered email addresses; vehicle-unique chassis and navigation terminal numbers; the location of vehicles and what time they were there; and videos from the vehicle’s “drive recorder” which records footage from the car. ...
^{https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/12/toyota-japan-exposed-millions-locations-videos/}

OANN:
"Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday that information on customers in some countries in Oceania and Asia, excluding Japan, may have been left publicly accessible from October 2016 to May 2023... ...
information that may have been accessible externally included names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and vehicle identification and registration numbers, the company said... ...
the vehicle data of 2.15 million users in Japan, or almost the entire customer base who had signed up for its main cloud service platforms since 2012, had been publicly available for a decade because of human error... ..."
^{https://www.oann.com/business/toyota-says-some-customers/}

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