Toyota Mobility Tokyo: employee temporarily lost a personal USB stick holding data of 9,489 staff and others

Toyota Mobility Tokyo, a sales company directly run by Toyota Motor, announced on 8 November 2024 that an employee had lost a personal USB stick onto which personal data of the company's staff and others had been downloaded. According to Nikkei, 9,489 people are affected. The USB stick was handed in to the company as found property on 26 August 2024 and recovered, but as there is no proof that nothing leaked between the loss and the recovery, the company reported it to the Personal Information Protection Commission. No misuse has been found.