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Sead Fadilpašić

Millions of Toyota drivers have had data exposed - here's what you need to know

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Japanese auto giant Toyota stored sensitive data on millions of vehicles exposed on the internet for a decade, available for anyone who knew where to look, the company has confirmed.

In a security notice published on the company’s newsroom website, the information about the location of 2.15 million Toyota owners was sitting in an unprotected cloud database between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023. 

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