Toyota blames "human error" for leaving Japanese customers' data exposed for a decade, Reuters reports. The company said identification numbers and location data of vehicles belonging to more than 2 million customers who signed up for Toyota's main cloud service platform since 2012 were left publicly available after the cloud system was set to public instead of private.
2M Japanese Toyota customers' vehicle data exposed in public cloud system
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