AccidentalTransportation & LogisticsTransportationMisdeliverySupply Chain (3P Vendor)Employee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 2, 2015

Filed

Nov 4, 2015

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC. →

Avis Budget Group, Inc. notified employees that a third-party benefits provider inadvertently sent a file containing names, addresses, and Social Security numbers to another client on October 2, 2015. The data was briefly viewed by two individuals at the recipient company and then deleted. No evidence of misuse was found. Affected individuals were offered one year of Experian ProtectMyID identity protection.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 33 days

Oct 2, 2015

Begins

Oct 2, 2015

Discovered

Nov 4, 2015

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.
norm: avis budget
Domain: avisbudgetgroup.com

Name: AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.
norm: avis budget
Domain: avisbudgetgroup.com
Industry: Transportation & Logisticsllm

Discovered: Oct 2, 2015
Breach occurred: Oct 2, 2015
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
Third party: via Third-party employee benefits provider

During the incident: Investigated the incident in close cooperation with the third-party provider and the company where the data was erroneously sent
Confirmed that the file containing data was briefly viewed by two individuals and promptly and properly deleted
Offered a complimentary one-year membership of Experian’s ProtectMyID
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(33 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-58635
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 4, 2015
Raw hash: e386ebaaf80768e021595ef1d2dc0bd95b0c5f8eaff8558f5d970d5d12e72277

Reporting entityAVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.

Victim entityAVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 2, 2015

Stated responseInvestigated the incident in close cooperation with the third-party provider and the company where the data was erroneously sent

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov