[chubot]

But the VIN number was available, as it says right below that

I mean does anyone think there HASN'T been a leak of VIN numbers and owners that would be trivial to join with this?

It's also kind of staggering how long this was a problem

Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach on its cloud environment that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers for ten years, between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023.

[JohnFen]

In my state, anyway, vehicle registrations are public information. If you have a VIN or license plate #, you can get the identity and address of the person the car is registered to, and if you know the name and address of a person, you can get the VINs/plate #s of the vehicles registered to them.

[rat9988]

I don't think it's any indicative of how long this problem has been here? Unless I misunderstood, because after re-reading I guess I see how you did read it.

[chubot]

It could be read the other way, but the title and first sentence seems to imply that there was a bug for 10 years

Not that 10 years of data was exposed for a short period