TOKYO—Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday it had found that about 296,000 pieces of customer information from its T-Connect service might have been leaked.
Toyota said 296,019 email addresses and customer numbers of those using T-Connect, a telematics service that connects vehicles via a network, were potentially leaked. The affected customers are individuals who signed up to the service’s website using their email addresses since July 2017.
A third party access could not be confirmed from the access history of the data server where the information was stored based on security experts’ investigation, Toyota said in a statement.
At the same time, it added that third-party access “could not be completely ruled out.”…