Toyota Security Breach Exposes Personal information of 3.1 Million clients

Japanese automobile maker Toyota declared its second data breach nowadays, making it the second cyber-security incident the company acknowledged within the past 5 weeks.

While the primary incident happened at its Australian subsidiary, today breach was declared by the companys main offices in Japan.

Toyota hacked, yes, Toyota major subsidiaries network compromised by unknown hackers and that they gained unauthorized access to the network wherever Toyota hold on nearly 3.1 million customers sensitive data.

Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japan-based, world’s second-largest automotive manufacturer who produces quite ten million vehicles p.a..

As elaborated in a very announcement published on Toyota international newsroom, unauthorized access was detected on the computing systems of Tokyo Sales Holdings, Tokyo Tokyo Motor, Tokyo Toyopet, Toyota Tokyo corolla, Nets Toyota Tokyo, Lexus Koishikawa Sales, Jamil shoji (Lexus Nerima), and Toyota West Tokyo corolla.

"It clad that up to 3.1 million things of client data might are leaked outside the company. {the data|the knowledge|the data} that will are leaked this point does not include information on credit cards," says the data breach notification.

Toyota has not nonetheless confirmed if the attackers were able to exfiltrate any of the customer personal data exposed when the IT systems of its subsidiaries were broken.

We have not confirmed the very fact that customer data has been leaked at this point, however we will still conduct elaborated surveys, putting top priority on customer safety and security.

"We apologize to everybody who has been using Toyota and Lexus vehicles for the great concern," states Toyota notification.

Also, "We take this case seriously, and can completely implement data security measures at dealers and therefore the entire Toyota group."