Toyota Motor Corporation believes that the information of about two lakh 96 thousand customers of its T-Connect service has been leaked. This information was informed by Toyota on Friday. News Reuters.
T-Connect is a telematics service to connect vehicles through a network, the car maker said. 2 lakh 96 thousand 19 email addresses and customer numbers of users of this service may be leaked.
Basically, from July 2017 till now, customers who have logged in from the service’s website via email have been affected.
Although unlikely, sensitive personal information such as names, phone numbers or credit card information could still be leaked, said Toyota.
The Japanese car maker said that the manufacturer of the T-Connect website accidentally uploaded the source code of the website to public settings from December 2017 to September 15 this year. And Toyota sees the possibility of information leakage from here.