Toyota Says About 296,000 Pieces of Customer Info Possibly Leaked

Toyota Says About 296,000 Pieces of Customer Info Possibly Leaked
A man walks past a Toyota logo at the Tokyo Motor Show in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2019. Edgar Su/Reuters
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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.