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Vehicle data of over 2 million Toyota users been publicly available in Japan since a decade

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Dissent

Update: As more details emerge, this story gets even bigger in some respects. See this news coverage at: https://www.gizchina.com/2023/05/13/toyota-mishandled-user-data-by-publishing-over-2-million-user-info-online/

Daniel Leussink and Kantaro Komiya report:

Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday the vehicle data of about 2.15 million users was left publicly available in Japan for about a decade from November 2013 to mid-April.

[…]

The leak, attributed to a setting error in the cloud environment, could encompass details such as vehicle locations and identification numbers of vehicle devices, but there were no reports of malicious use, the company said.

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