Background
Hertz recently announced a data breach involving the sensitive personal information of current and former customers of Hertz, Thrifty Car Rental, and Dollar Rent a Car. Current and former Hertz, Thrifty Car Rental, or Dollar Rent a Car customers may be entitled to compensation.
Hertz Data Breach At A Glance
Companies Affected: Hertz, Thrifty Car Rental, and Dollar Rent a Car
Total Customers Affected: Unknown – Hertz has not fully disclosed the total number
Date Reported: April 14, 2025
What Happened?
Car rental company Hertz recently announced that personal information of its current and former customers was breached due to a cyber attack. According to reports, if you were a customer of Hertz, Thrifty Car Rental, or Dollar Rent a Car, your personal data may have been compromised. The compromised information includes your contact information, birth date, driver’s license information, payment card information, social security numbers (or other government-issued information), and workers’ compensation claims. We can help navigate the next steps to answer your questions. For more information on the incident, read here:
What Personal Information Is at Issue?
According to reports, breached data may have included customer contact information, birth dates, driver’s license information, payment card information, social security numbers (or other government-issued information) and workers’ compensation claims. The company has not yet disclosed the total number of customers who were affected.
What Are Data Breaches?
Data breaches occur when a malicious third party, such as a computer hacker, gains access to sensitive consumer and other data held by a business who was entrusted to protect it. Frequently, data breaches are the result of insufficient data security, allowing hackers to illegally gain access to the data and either misuse it themselves (e.g., for identity theft or fraud) or sell or trade that data with others, often on the “dark web”.
Unfortunately, in the modern age, data breaches have become a fact of life. Where data breaches are the result of insufficient protections put in place by the breached business, however, the business may be required to compensate the victims whose personal data was improperly accessed.
What are the Risks of Data Breaches?
Being the victim of a data breach in which criminal actors may have access to personal information can be a stressful and frightening experience. Data breaches can place the victims at an increased risk of fraud or identity theft, as their stolen data can be misused by criminal actors, often long after the breach itself. For example, where a username and password are disclosed as part of a data breach, bad actors might make use of that information to illegally access accounts.
In some cases, the information disclosed through a data breach can be profitable to criminals immediately, who may use stolen login information to commit fraud and identity theft. In other cases, the personal information disclosed is bought and sold online where it can be combined with data from other sources (including other data breaches.) In other words, it is often impossible to know the true risks and effects of a data breach until long after the breach has occurred, as criminals may be analyzing and aggregating the stolen data into comprehensive identity theft packages. This is why holding businesses accountable is important.
What Can I Do?
Unfortunately, any data disclosed as part of a data breach has effectively entered the public domain and may be repeatedly accessed, traded, bought, and sold by criminal actors online.
The first thing to do when discovering that you have been victimized in a data breach is to immediately change login information such as passwords to a new and unique password for the affected account.
Once passwords have been updated to new, unique, and strong passwords, an affected person should continue to monitor account activity and credit reports, to ensure that their information has not been misused. Suspicious activity should be reported directly to the bank or card provider where the account is maintained. Enrolling in identity theft protection services may also offer protection, but data breach victims should still monitor accounts for suspicious activity.
Victims of data breaches should also strongly consider taking action against the business that experienced, and may be responsible for, the breach. If you have been impacted by the Hertz data breach, you can contact our team of attorneys today to receive a free case evaluation. If you are entitled to compensation, our attorneys will analyze your case and, if appropriate, pursue a claim on your behalf to seek the best possible compensation for your loss.
