Japanese automotive giant Toyota has acknowledged another instance in which the online presence of 260,000 car owners' personal information for a decade.
After learning that roughly 2.15 million users' partial data was made public "due to misconfiguration of the Cloud environment" for a decade, the company apologised last month. The recently exposed data that Toyota discovered was "potentially accessible externally due to a misconfiguration" of its associated cloud service. The automaker promised to send a separate apology to consumers whose information was compromised.
The company said, “This incident also was caused by insufficient dissemination and enforcement of data handling rules, since our last announcement, we have implemented a system to monitor cloud configurations."
The system is now in use to examine the settings of all cloud environments and to monitor the settings continuously. Toyota expressed its sincere regret for any worry and difficulty this may have caused to its customers and all other pertinent parties.
Toyota also acknowledged that between October 2016 and May 2023, personal data belonging to an undetermined number of consumers living outside of Japan, particularly in Asia, may have been compromised. The business apologised and notified clients whose in-vehicle terminal ID, chassis number, location data, and time may have been compromised through email at the registered address last month.
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