Toyota Motor Corp. announced that the vehicle data of 2.15 million users in Japan, who signed up for its main cloud service platforms since 2012, had been publicly available for a decade due to human error. The issue, which began in November 2013 and lasted until mid-April, stemmed from human error, leading to a cloud system being set to public instead of private. Toyota said it would introduce a system to audit cloud settings, establish a system to continuously monitor settings, and thoroughly educate employees on data handling rules. Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission has been informed about the incident.
