Thousands of Avis car rental customers had personal data stolen in cyberattack


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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