Hertz says customers' personal data and driver's licenses stolen in data breach

[gnabgib]

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/hertz-says-customers-personal-data-and-drivers-licenses-stolen-in-data-breach/

[1970-01-01]

After your 14th free credit monitoring service, you should be able to trade them all in for a free sandwich or something valuable. Starbucks could clean up by offering free coffee with proof of your next data breach!

[486sx33 → 1970-01-01]

My last free credit monitoring subscription just ran out, which means I havent been a party to a service that’s been hacked for I think 7 years but at least 5 years. I’m going to miss my free equifax credit monitoring emails. Anyone got a recent hack that gave away free equifax I could pretend to be involved with ?

[instagib → 486sx33]

A few credit cards give away credit score monitoring and dark net releases of your information. Discover is one of them.

[ledauphin]

I would like for somebody to pass a law providing for automatic and significant direct-to-customer penalty payments when these things "happen".

[JumpCrisscross → ledauphin]

Why? We need to better quantify the damages, I suppose, to balance the risks and rewards. Like, my data was probably leaked here. If I didn’t peruse HN, that would probably never affect me.

[chris_wot]

Could someone please put out warrants for the arrest of the Hertz executives for theft? Just like they did to customers who returned their cars but got arrested anyway.

[hulitu → chris_wot]

> Could someone please put out warrants for the arrest of the Hertz executives for theft? Just like they did to customers who returned their cars but got arrested anyway.

"This is not how capitalism works" Cheers, Microsoft [1]

[1] Master AD keys stolen, hackers in their network for years, nobody cares.

[OutOfHere]

If you haven't placed a credit freeze across all three agencies, now would be the time to do it.

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That Hertz.