US car rental giant Avis has confirmed it was hit by a data breach early last month affecting customer data.In a letter to affected customers, Avis confirmed an “unauthorized third party” broke into one of its business applications,

According to Avis’ notice to Iowa’s attorney general’s office, data stolen by hackers varied by customer, but included names, mailing addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, driver’s license information and credit card numbers.

Rental car company Avis detected unauthorized access to a business applications in August. ‘Insider wrongdoing’ may have played a role.

Car rental company Avis has suffered a data breach impacting nearly 300,000 customers after an unauthorized third party accessed a business application.

The car rental giant says personal information, credit card information, and driver's license numbers were stolen in the August cyberattack.

In a separate filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, Avis disclosed that the number of persons affected in the reach total 299,006 customers, so the investigation appears thorough.

If you recently rented a car from Avis, your data may be in the hands of hackers. The rental car provider is now sending data breach notifications to affected US consumers. “We discovered on August 5,

Insider wrongdoing' to blame for the breach Avis Rent A Car System has alerted 299,006 customers across multiple US states that their personal information was stolen in an August data breach.… The digital break-in occurred between August 3 and August 6,