Possibility of Leakage of Customers' Email Addresses, etc.

[bZ4X]

Come on Toyota!!! What else are we going to see? 

Details from announcement (tranalated) :

Connected services provided by Toyota Motor Corporation and Toyota Connected Corporation * The e-mail addresses and customer management numbers of some customers who subscribe to "T-Connect" (for management purposes, each customer The number assigned to you), 296,019 cases were found to have been leaked. We sincerely apologize for causing great inconvenience and concern to our customers.

Eligible customers are those who have registered their email addresses on the T-Connect user site since July 2017. In addition, the personal information that may be leaked is the e-mail address and customer management number, and other information such as name, phone number, credit card, etc. is not affected.

As a result of an investigation by security experts, although we cannot confirm access by a third party based on the access history of the data server where the customer's email address and customer management number are stored, at the same time we cannot completely deny it. We now have.

Starting today, we will individually send an apology and notification to the registered email address of any customer whose email address or customer management number may have been leaked. In addition, we have prepared a special form on our website that allows you to check whether your email address is subject to this campaign, and we have set up a dedicated call center to answer questions and concerns from customers. I did.

In addition, the e-mail addresses used for Lexus vehicles "G-Link/G-Link Lite" and "MyTOYOTA/My TOYOTA+" apps are handled differently from the user site in question, so e-mail addresses have been leaked. There is no possibility of

.... For the rest of the announcement click below link. 

Source: https://global.toyota/jp/newsroom/corporate/38095972.html

[FROSTYBALLS]

Moved to General Discussions.

[Cyker]

Aaand this is why I don't trust anything 'cloud'-based and try to minimize what personal data I give to companies...

 

[HSDish]

Is all MyT app activity affected by this?

[Big_D]

On 10/10/2022 at 9:05 PM, Cyker said:

Aaand this is why I don't trust anything 'cloud'-based and try to minimize what personal data I give to companies...

 

Exactly the same as me.