Toyota Discloses Decade-Long Data Leak Exposing 2.15M Customers Data

A misconfigured cloud instance exposed vehicle data, but not personally identifiable information, the car maker says.

Toyota has disclosed that for more than 10 years, a misconfigured cloud bucket left more 2.15 million customer records exposed to the open Internet.
According to the disclosure, the sensitive data from Toyotas cloud-based Connected services was open to unauthorized access from November 2013 to this April. The
Toyota Connected offering
allows drivers to stream entertainment, use location data to find stolen vehicles, receive flash maintenance reminders, and send for emergency help in case of an accident.
Toyota spokesperson Hideaki Homma told Associated Press that the
Connected service
breach only impacts customers in Japan. Any unauthorized access to the data would not identify individual customers, the carmaker said in its statement, adding that there has not been any observed use or abuse of the data from a third party.
We believe that the main reason for this incident was insufficient explanation and thoroughness of rules for data handling, a Google translation of the
Toyota data breach disclosure statement
read. (We will) collaborate closely with the [Toyota corporation], thoroughly educate employees, work to prevent recurrence, introduce a system to audit the cloud settings, conduct a setting survey of the cloud environment, and continuously monitor the setting status. We will build a system.
This isnt the first security incident for the automaker this year. Just in March, a hacker made headlines by exploiting a
flaw in Toyotas C360
customer relationship management (CRM) software, exposing the personal data of an unknown number of the companys customers in Mexico.

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