The car-rental company Hertz is warning its customers that a data breach exposed personal information including driver’s licenses, credit-card data, contact information and in some cases social security or passport numbers. The company said that hackers breached Cleo Communications, a company that it works with for file transfers.
The company said in a “Notice of Data Incident” statement (PDF) on its website: “We completed this data analysis on April 2, 2025, and concluded that the personal information involved in this event may include the following: name, contact information, date of birth, credit card information, driver’s license information and information related to workers’ compensation claims.
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