Toyota Motor, the world’s largest car manufacturer, said on Friday it had identified that about 296,000 pieces of customer information and assigned customer numbers were “mistakenly” leaked from its T-Connect service.
The Japanese automaker published a statement warning its customers that they may be at risk of receiving spam, phishing scams, or malicious texts to their email addresses. Those impacted by the data leak are users who signed up for the service starting July 2017 via their emails.
According to the firm, a total of 296,019 email addresses and customer numbers were possibly leaked, but private data such as customer names, phone numbers, or credit card information remained unharmed. Toyota also has not reported any cases where the leaked customers’ information has been misused yet.
“The email addresses and customer management numbers of some customers who subscribe to ‘T-Connect’ were found to have been leaked,” Toyota stated. “We sincerely apologize for causing great inc
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