Toyota Kirloskar Motor reported a data breach in its system but said the extent of intrusion is being confirmed, and that the incident might have exposed personal information of some of its customers on the internet.
The came to know about the incident after one of its service providers alerted it of a potential data breach that might have compromised some of its customer’s personal data. It has already notified the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
The company apologised “for any concern” the incident may have caused to its customers, adding, “Considering this incident, TKM will work with its service provider to further enhance the existing extensive guidelines being followed and is fully committed to avoid any kind of inconvenience to our esteemed customers.”
This data breach incident comes against the backdrop of a data leak in October when Toyota Motor Corp said around 296,000 pieces of information related to customers from its T-Connect service might have been compromised.
