Car rental giant Avis is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that their personal information and driver’s license numbers were stolen in an August cyberattack.
The New Jersey-headquartered company said in a data breach notice filed with several U.S. attorneys general over the past week that it discovered intruders in one of its business applications on August 5 and took efforts to end the unauthorized access, which the company said began two days earlier.
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