A data breach at Toyota Motor’s Indian business might have expose some customers’ personal information, it said. Toyota India said it has notified the relevant Indian authorities of the data breach at Toyota Kirloskar Motor, a joint venture with Indian conglomerate Kirloskar Group.
TKM said in an email statement without disclosing the size of the data breach or number of customers affect :
An unrelate issue at Toyota Motor’s T-Connect service potentially leak about 296,000 pieces of customer information, it said last October.
At the time, Toyota Group had said it had found that about 296,000 pieces of customer information from its T-Connect service might have leak.
In October 2022, the firm said 296,019 email addresses and customer numbers of those using T-Connect, a telematics service that connects vehicles via a network, were potentially leak.
The affected customers are individuals who sign up to the service’s website using their email addresses since July 2017.
A third-party access could not be confirm from the access history of the data server where the information was store base on security experts’ investigation, Toyota said in a statement at the time.
At the same time, it adds that third-party access “could not be completely rull out.”
There was no possibility that users’ sensitive personal information, such as names, phone numbers or credit card information, were leak, Toyota said.
The Japanese automaker had not confirm cases of the information being misuse but caution that there was a possibility of spamming, phishing scams and unsolicite email messages being sent to the users’ email addresses.