Japanese automaker Toyota has apologized again for leaking customer files online due to a cloud configuration error. THE company he gave the same explanation he gave when the same thing happened a few weeks ago.
This latest incident – like the penultimate one, in which two were revealed millions archives of customers – “caused by insufficient enforcement of data management rules”, he says Toyota in a statement. The company said it does not know if the data has been used for malicious purposes and that it discovered the error in the cloud while conducting a wider research of Toyota Connected Corporation (TC) systems.
TC's systems were also the target of two previous attacks on Toyota's cloud: one detected in September 2022 and another in mid-May 2023.
As was the case with both previous reports, this latest misadjustment was discovered years after the fact. Toyota admitted in that case that records for about 260.000 domestic Japanese service incidents had been exposed on the web since 2015.
The data exposed recently it was harmless if Toyota said it only contained vehicle IDs and some map data update files.
