Last week, a cybercriminal using the handle ZeroSevenGroup dumped 240GB of data on the infamous stolen data site BreachForums, that they said came from a hack on the US branch of car manufacturer Toyota. ZeroSevenGroup claims the dump includes customer and employee data.
Toyota told BleepingComputer that a breach at a third party had led to the data theft. After they looked at the files, BleepingComputer concluded that they had been stolen or at least created on December 25, 2022. The car vendor has already notified impacted individuals, but it did not provide technical details about the incident.
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Source: Malwarebytes labs
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