Hertz says customers' personal data and driver's licenses stolen in data breach | TechCrunch
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The car rental giant attributed the breach to Cleo, whose customers had data stolen by a ransomware gang in 2024.
  • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
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    5 months ago

    for anyone in the US, please freeze your credit for you and anyone else in your family.

    With all these breaches it is mandatory.

    Also driver license numbers just went up in value because of the anti porn states. If you get asked questions about who has your driver license info, keep any notice of any breaches at hand.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    And there will be no repercussions. You’ll get a coupon for free credit monitoring for a year and that will be it.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Luckily data thieves only attempt theft within 12-24 months as allowed by publicly announced class action settlements so everyone should be good.

  • ThisGuyThat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Hertz can’t seem to get it together. Their customers have falsely been arrested for theft on mutiple occasions.#

  • azron@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    Companies should be required to delete your data if you don’t do business with them after a certain amount of time.