Subj : Toyota warns data breach may have exposed customer financial info
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Dec 12 2023 11:30:06

Toyota warns data breach may have exposed customer financial information

Date:
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 11:15:21 +0000

Description:
Ransomware attack on Toyota Financial Services results in customer data 
breach, but where?

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Weeks after Toyota confirmed a ransomware attack affecting Toyota Financial 
Services Europe & Africa, the Japanese automaker has now confirmed that 
customer data may well have been exposed. 

At the time, Medusa Ransomware, the group behind the attack, claimed to have 
stolen financial documents, spreadsheets, purchase invoices, hashed account 
passwords, cleartext user IDs and passwords, agreements, passport scans, 
internal organization charts, financial performance reports, staff email 
addresses, and more. 

Now, the company has been informing customers that their data has been 
affected, with letters being sent to some German customers. Toyota ransomware 
attack breached personal data 

At the time, Toyota Financial Services was told that it could cough up $8 
million to have the ransomware group delete the stolen files, or extend this 
deadline for the sum of $10,000 per day. 

It now appears that Toyota did not give in to the groups demands, and 
customer data has since been spotted for sale on Medusas website. 

A letter to German customers (translated to English using Google Translate) 
seen by German news outlet Heise reads: According to the current status of 
the investigation, your last name, first name, the postcode of your place of 
residence and possibly other contact information are affected. 

Other data may include financial details, including contract amount and IBAN. 
Should Toyotas investigation, which is still underway with a leading 
cybersecurity company, reveal any more high-risk data that has been leaked, 
the company promises to issue further notices. 

 Heise also noted that customer payments and vehicle deliveries saw a service 
interruption as a result of the attack, but that services were being restored 
from December 1. 

TechRadar Pro has asked Toyota to confirm whether customer data from other 
regions outside of Germany may also have been affected. The company did not 
immediately respond. More from TechRadar Pro Concerned your data may have 
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boost Toyota suffered a major outage after its servers ran out of storage



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/toyota-warns-data-breach-may-have-expos
ed-customer-financial-information


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