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Avis Rent A Car System Data Breach

Posted on behalf of Arnold Law Firm on September 10, 2024 in Data Breach

NOTICE: If you received a NOTICE OF DATA BREACH letter from Avis Rent A Car System, contact the Arnold Law Firm at (916) 777-7777 to discuss your legal options or submit a confidential Case Evaluation form here.

Between September 5 and September 6, 2024, Avis Rental, often referred to as Avis Rent A Car System, LLC (“Avis”), reported a cybersecurity incident (“Data Breach”) to the Attorney General Offices in Maine, California, and Texas. Avis disclosed that on August 5, 2024, it discovered suspicious activity in one of its business applications. A subsequent investigation, concluding on August 14, 2024, revealed that from August 3 to August 6, 2024, an unauthorized party accessed and exfiltrated sensitive and confidential information from Avis’s business application.

On or about September 4, 2024, Avis began sending out data breach notification letters to those affected by the Data Breach. Each notification letter includes an offer for a one-year complimentary membership to Equifax, a service that provides credit monitoring.

According to Avis’s report to the Attorney General of Maine, approximately 299,006 individuals were impacted by the Data Breach. As the Data Breach was only recently announced, Avis has not yet disclosed additional details. If you received a data breach notification letter from Avis, it indicates that you were affected by the Data Breach.

Headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, Avis Rent A Car System, is a major player in the global car rental industry. Founded in 1946, Avis has grown to serve millions of customers annually across its 5,500 locations in over 165 countries. As of 2022, Avis Budget Group, the parent company, reported revenues of approximately $12 billion with 21,000 employees.

WHAT INFORMATION IS INVOLVED?

According to Avis’s report to the Attorney General’s Office in Texas, the type of compromised information varied among individuals and potentially included:

  • Full names,
  • Addresses,
  • Driver’s license numbers,
  • Financial information (e.g. account number, credit or debit card number),
  • Dates of birth,
  • Certain other personal information.

This information is referred to as your Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”). It provides critical details about you and is an integral part of your identity. Businesses are legally required to protect this information, or they risk incurring statutory penalties and other legal repercussions. When PII is stolen, it can be used by identity thieves to commit fraudulent activities using your identity.

The best way to protect yourself after a data breach is to sign up for credit and identity protection services as soon as possible. California offers extra protections and legal rights to its residents through the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).

NOTICE: If you received a NOTICE OF DATA BREACH letter from Avis Rent A Car System, contact the Arnold Law Firm at (916) 777-7777 to discuss your legal options, or submit a confidential Case Evaluation form here.