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Hertz says customers’ personal data and driver’s licenses stolen in data breach


The car rental giant attributed the breach to Cleo, whose customers had data stolen by a ransomware gang in 2024.

Car rental giant Hertz has begun notifying its customers of a data breach that included their personal information and driver’s licenses. The Clop ransomware gang claimed last year to have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Cleo’s widely used enterprise file transfer products, which allow companies to share large sets of sensitive data over the internet. Soon after, the Clop ransomware gang claimed on its dark web leak site that it stole data from close to 60 companies by exploiting the bug in their Cleo systems.

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