Compensation?
Avis will be paying compensation to all those affected of course.
Avis Rent A Car System has alerted 299,006 customers across multiple US states that their personal information was stolen in an August security breach. The digital break-in occurred between August 3 and August 6, according to the car rental giant in filings with the Maine and California attorneys general. On August 14, Avis …
The last time I use Avis, was 7 years ago, I used a now defunct credit card, and my European DL. In July, I needed to rent a car, one way, from Colorado back east. None available at any company for one way rental except Avis, but they wanted a small fortune, and I passed. Bought a used car instead...
Won't be using Avis again...
At this point - I believe that no one in the world should ever have to pay for credit monitoring again. The various credit reporting agencies should be forced to provide it to any user in their database, (after hopefully verifying the identity of the querant ) .
The credit system, as it stands, has now been breeched sooooo many times that you could probably accomplish a more accurate credit check on the darkweb anyway.
Can anyone confirm if this affects AVIS customers in the US only, or globally?
UK-based Reg reader here. I rented a car from AVIS in Dublin at the start of August this year, so it sounds like this breach happened after my rental completed. I must admit that I was not impressed with them anyway - having paid for the 4-day hire in advance, using a stash of Avios in order to bring the entire rental price down to under £50, they kindly charged my Mastercard for the full hire when I returned the car to Dublin Airport (you need to supply your Credit Card to guarantee insurance - or in other words, in case you scratch or damage the car, they use the card shown to bill you). After I contacted them to point out their error, they then took 28 days to refund me.... hmmm.... call me cynical, but this struck me as quite a nice "revenue-generator-on-the-side" if they can get away with doing this to several hundred customers a month and benefit from all of that lovely accrued interest...
U.K. here and got the email
What personal data was involved?
We determined on 14 August 2024, that your personal data was obtained by the unauthorised third party, which included your name and your postal address, email address, driver's license, credit card number and expiration date, date of birth, and phone number.
Lovely