Toyota Fears Information Leak From Its Telematics Service

by Shivani Kumaresan, Benzinga Staff Writer

October 7, 2022 7:10 AM | 1 min read |

Toyota Motor Corp TM fears that about 296,000 pieces of customer information from its T-Connect service might have been leaked.
The affected customers are individuals who signed up to the service's website using their email addresses since July 2017, Reuters reported.
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Toyota denied any possibility of a leak in users' sensitive personal information.
The report noted that a contractor that developed the T-Connect website accidentally uploaded parts of the source code with public settings from December 2017 until September 15, 2022.
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Price Action: TM shares are trading lower by 1.39% at $136.17 on Thursday.
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