TOKYO, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp mentioned on Friday it had discovered that about 296,000 items of buyer info from its T-Join service might need been leaked.
Toyota mentioned 296,019 e mail addresses and buyer numbers of these utilizing T-Join, a telematics service that connects automobiles by way of a community, had been probably leaked. The affected prospects are people who signed as much as the service’s web site utilizing their e mail addresses since July 2017.
A 3rd get together entry couldn’t be confirmed from the entry historical past of the information server the place the knowledge was saved primarily based on safety consultants’ investigation, Toyota mentioned in an announcement.
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On the identical time, it added that third-party entry “couldn’t be fully dominated out.”
There was no chance, although, that customers’ delicate private info, reminiscent of names, telephone numbers or bank card info, had been leaked, Toyota mentioned.
The Japanese automaker didn’t affirm circumstances of the knowledge being misused however cautioned that there’s a chance of spamming, phishing scams and unsolicited e mail messages being despatched to the customers’ e mail addresses.
The automaker mentioned a contractor that developed the T-Join web site by accident uploaded components of the supply code with public settings from December 2017 till Sept. 15 this 12 months.
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Reporting by Satoshi Sugiyama; modifying by Jason Neely and Christian Schmollinger
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