Automobile rental firm Avis has knowledgeable round 300,000 of its prospects within the US that their private knowledge has been stolen in a cyberattack.
The corporate detected unauthorized entry to one in every of its enterprise functions at first of August. “After changing into conscious of the incident, we instantly took steps to finish the unauthorized entry,” Avis informed prospects in a “Data Breach Notification Letter“ (PDF), a pattern of which it registered with the California prosecutor’s workplace.
It has initiated an investigation in cooperation with security consultants and regulation enforcement authorities, it mentioned.
