Hertz So Bad: Alarming Data Breach Exposes Customer Data To Hackers

Hertz Corporation has warned about an alarming data breach that might have exposed sensitive customer data to hackers. The rental car company has provided details of the breach, the measures it has taken, and what potentially affected individuals can do to safeguard their personal information, if needed.

In a notice, Hertz revealed that customer data was extracted within Cleo, the platform it uses for file transfer. The platform was the subject of a vicious zero-day attack that enabled unauthorized third-party access to the customer data of Hertz, Dollar, and Thrifty rental vehicle brands. According to Hertz, while this breach occurred on the Cleo platform in October and December 2024, it only became known on the 10th of February 2025.

Upon discovering the breach, Hertz embarked on security research to know “the scope of the event and to identify individuals whose personal information may have been impacted."

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