Data of 2.6 lakh customers of Toyota was leaked.Image Credit source: Toyota
The issue of data leak has once again become hot in Toyota. This is the second time the company admitted that customer data was at risk. In the latest case, the data of at least 2,60,000 car owners is at stake. For the last ten years this data was open in the cloud. In so many years toyota It was not known to the ears that the personal data of its customers could be in the hands of cybercriminals. Earlier, the Japanese car company had admitted that the data of about 21.5 lakh car owners had been leaked.
Last month, the automobile company had given a statement accepting the mistake. The company had said that due to a fault in the cloud system, the data of millions of customers remained at risk for the last decade. Now Toyota has detected another case of data leakage. Due to a fault in the cloud service, there was a threat to the data of the customers.
apologies to customers
The Japanese auto company said that it will issue a separate apology to those customers whose data remained open. The automaker said that such a big case of data breach happened due to the data handling rules and other reasons. However, the company has adopted a system taking lessons from it. It will keep an eye on matters like cloud configuration.
impact on these customers
At present, this system is checking the settings of all cloud services. Apart from this, monitoring of the setting will also continue. According to reports, Toyota said that we apologize to customers and all concerned for the inconvenience caused by this (data breach).
Toyota also admitted that apart from Japan, data of customers from other countries, especially Asia, has also been exposed. Personal information of car owners between October 2016 and May 2023 came out.
This news is being updated.
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