GoKawiilMazda Motor Corporation (Mazda) announced that information belonging to its employees and business partners had been exposed in a security incident detected last December.
Mazda is one of Japan’s largest automotive manufacturers, with an annual production of 1.2 million vehicles and revenue of nearly $24 billion.
The company said the attackers exploited a vulnerability in a system related to warehouse management for parts procured from Thailand. The system did not contain any customer data. Also, the breach is limited to 692 records.
“Mazda Motor Corporation has identified traces of unauthorized external access to a management system used for warehouse operations related to parts procured from Thailand,” reads Mazda’s announcement.
“Following this discovery, the Company promptly reported the matter to the Personal Information Protection Commission – an external bureau of the Japanese Cabinet Office – and implemented appropriate security measures and conducted an investigation in cooperation with an external specialist organization.”
The investigation revealed that the potentially exposed information includes the following data types:
User IDs
Full names
Email addresses
Company names
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