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Toyota Motor Corporation

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

May 1, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Toyota Motor Corporation →3 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Shinyhunters on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2025-10-03

Source: Ransomware.live

Company description · AI-generated by the aggregator, not the leak post

Toyota Motor Corporation is a multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Japan. Founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937, it became the world's largest automaker in 2008. Toyota is known for vehicles that prioritize durability and fuel efficiency. The company further pioneered hybrid electric vehicles with the introduction of Toyota Prius. Additionally, Toyota conducts business in the fields of housing, financial services, communications, marine and biotechnology.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

May 1, 2025

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-23

shinyhunters

According to ransomware.live, ShinyHunters is a financially motivated data-theft and extortion group active since 2020, responsible for high-profile breaches including Ticketmaster (via Snowflake) and PowerSchool; by 2025 they launched a RaaS offering called "shinysp1d3r," and in August 2025 French authorities arrested four members.

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