{"id":400383,"date":"2026-09-15T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400383\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:48:22","slug":"florida-dmv-hacked-by-international-criminal-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400383\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida DMV hacked by international criminal group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 Florida officials said that a state agency was hacked earlier this month, raising questions about who accessed drivers&#8217; personal information. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flhsmv.gov\/2026\/09\/11\/flhsmv-releases-statement-on-data-breach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released Friday,<\/a> the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) said that officials learned of the data breach on Sept. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Florida officials say state agency hacked by international criminal group<\/p>\n<p>The breach was carried out by what they called an &#8220;international criminal organization,&#8221; but they did not identify the group.<\/p>\n<p>After launching an investigation, the department determined that hackers used a Plant City police employee&#8217;s login information that was improperly stored on a personal device.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The data breach was quickly mitigated and no further breach has occurred or is ongoing,&#8221; Friday&#8217;s statement said. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how many drivers were affected and exactly what information was exposed.<\/p>\n<p>The FLHSMV said it is partnering with the Florida Digital Service and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in its response to the data breach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As this is an ongoing criminal investigation, further information will be released at an appropriate time in the future,&#8221; FLHSMV said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 Florida officials said that a state agency was hacked earlier this month, raising questions about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[8947,159287,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-400383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-florida-department-of-highway-safety","tag-florida-hack","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}