Toyota Kirloskar Motor on Sunday reported a data breach in its system but said the extent of intrusion is being confirmed.
In a statement, the company said it has been ”notified by one of its service providers of an incident that might have exposed personal information” of some of its customers on the internet.
”The extent of intrusion is being confirmed,” Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) said in a statement.
The competent authority CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has been notified, it added.
”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,” the company said, apologising ”for any concern” the incident may have caused to its customers.
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Meanwhile, Toyota Kirloskar Motor reported a 3.8 percent decline in its dispatches to dealers at 10,421 units in December 2022 against 10,834 units in December 2021.
For the CY22, Toyota India's total wholesales were at 1,60,357 units against 1,30,768 units in 2021, a growth of 23 percent. The company also reported that its sales in 2022 were the company's highest wholesales in the last ten years as the previous record was in 2012 with a total of 1,72,241 units.
Atul Sood, Associate Vice President, Sales and Strategic Marketing at Toyota Kirloskar Motor, said that 2022 had been "tremendous" for the company in terms of new product launches such as the Urban Cruiser Hyryder and the Innova Hycross, as well as sales performance.
(Edited by : Vivek Dubey)
