Data leak β›“ Supply Chain

Toyota 240GB Data Leak

πŸ“… 2022-12-25
Primary Source β†—

Incident Details

Toyota confirmed a data breach in August 2024 after threat actor ZeroSevenGroup posted 240 GB of data on a hacking forum. Data included employee and customer PII, contracts, financial records, network infrastructure details, and database credentials. Toyota said the breach was limited to a third-party contractor and did not affect Toyota systems broadly. Separate from the 2023 cloud misconfiguration exposing 2.15 million customers’ vehicle location data.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Unauthorized access to a third-party contractor's environment; 240 GB of Toyota internal data surfaced on a hacking forum in August 2024, believed stolen as far back as December 2022
Supply Chain Attack
βœ… Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise

Timeline

  1. 2022-12-25 Breach occurred
  2. 2024-08-01 Publicly disclosed
  3. 2024-08-01 Customers notified