Toyota Motor

Disclosed May 12, 20232,150,000 affectedUnverified

Cloud misconfiguration exposed vehicle data of 2.15 million Toyota customers for a decade

Toyota said a misconfigured cloud environment for its connected car service left data on about 2.15 million customers in Japan, including email addresses, vehicle identifiers, vehicle locations and some in-car video, publicly accessible from November 2013 until April 2023. A wider review later found additional exposed customer data.

What is known

People affected	2,150,000 (as reported by the organization)
Disclosed	May 12, 2023
Discovered	Apr 2023
Attack	Exposed data
Data exposed	EmailsLocationOther
Sector	Manufacturing · JP
Status	Unverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization

Sources

Newstechcrunch.com

Toyota Japan exposed millions of vehicles' location data for a decade

Newstechcrunch.com

Toyota confirms another years-long data leak, this time exposing at least 260,000 car owners

Notices filed

TotalMay 12, 2023

Research2,150,000 people

Other breaches at Toyota Motor

T-Connect source code on GitHub exposed 296,019 customer emails for five yearsExposed data exposed emails.Exposed data296K affectedManufacturingJPOct 7, 2022

History of this record

Added2026-09-25

First recordedby seedSource

First seen 2026-09-25 (Research). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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