Yoree Koh reports:
Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday its Japanese-language corporate website had been hacked earlier this month.
The world’s biggest auto maker said the security breach didn’t compromise customer information because such data isn’t stored on the site. But it urges those who visited the site from June 5 to June 14 to install anti-virus software.
Toyota said unauthorized parties accessed one of its servers and tinkered with it so visitors to the Japanese home page were redirected to a different website that automatically installed a program onto their computer.
Toyota said it was the first time its website had ever been hacked.
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