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    https://www.theverge.com/news/648741/hertz-customer-data-breach-hackers-cleo-vulnerability

    Car rental giant Hertz is alerting customers that personal information including credit card details and Social Security numbers may have been stolen in a data breach that impacted one of the firm’s vendors. In a notice posted to its website, Hertz says that company data “was acquired by an unauthorized third-party” during a cyberattack exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities within the Cleo Communications file transfer platform between October 2024 and December 2024…

    customers’ names, contact information, dates of birth, credit card information, driver’s license details, and information related to workers’ compensation claims may have been exposed by the breach. Hertz also says that “a very small number of individuals” had their Social Security numbers taken in the breach, along with passport numbers and other government-issued identification data…

    https://www.hertz.com/content/dam/hertz/global/resources/Notice_of_Data_Incident-United_States.pdf

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      I have worked part time for Hertz for a number of years since retiring. This news does not in the least bit surprise me. IMHO, Hertz has been an absolute train wreck for at least the past 10 years, and I am truly surprised they have managed to survive this long without burning their building down.

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