Toyota

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2023
Toyota Italy accidentally leaked sensitive data

Toyota Italy accidentally leaked sensitive data for more than one-and-a-half years, until this March, CyberNews reported. A Japanese multinational accidentally leaked access to its marketing tools, enabling attackers to launch phishing campaigns against its vast pool of customers in Italy. Toyota Italy accidentally leaked sensitive data for more than one-and-a-half years, until this March. Namely, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2023
Researcher compromised the Toyota Supplier Management Network

The infrastructure of Toyota was compromised again, this time its global supplier management network was hacked by a researcher. The security researcher Eaton Zveare has exploited a vulnerability in Toyota’s Global Supplier Preparation Information Management System (GSPIMS) to achieve system admin access to Toyota’s global supplier management network. The GSPIMS portal allows employees and suppliers […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2022
Toyota discloses accidental leak of some customers’ personal information

Toyota Motor Corporation discloses data leak, customers’ personal information may have been exposed after an access key was exposed on GitHub. Toyota Motor Corporation warns customers that their personal information may have been accidentally exposed after an access key was publicly available on GitHub for almost five years. The carmaker discovered recently that a portion […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2019
Toyota Boshoku Corporation lost over $37 Million following BEC attack

Toyota Boshoku Corporation announced that one of its European subsidiaries lost more than $37 million due to a business email compromise (BEC) attack. Toyota Boshoku Corporation is a Japanese automotive component manufacturer, it is a member of the Toyota Group of companies.  Toyota Boshoku Corporation has announced that one of its European subsidiaries lost more than $37 million following a business […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2019
Millions of Toyota customer records exposed in data breach

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) sales subsidiary and its affiliates suffered a data breach that exposed personal information of millions of customers in Japan. The week closes with the news of a data breach suffered by Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) sales subsidiary and its affiliates that exposed personal information belonging to millions of customers in Japan. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 18, 2019
Toyota PASTA Car-Hacking Tool will be soon on GitHub

Toyota plans to release the PASTA (Portable Automotive Security Testbed) Car-Hacking Tool on GitHub next month. Takuya Yoshida from Toyota’s InfoTechnology Center and his colleague Tsuyoshi Toyama are members of a Toyota team that developed the new tool, called PASTA (Portable Automotive Security Testbed). PASTA is an open-source testing platform specifically designed for car hacking, […]