{"id":432112,"date":"2026-10-19T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432112\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:58:08","slug":"florida-driver-license-motor-vehicle-data-breached-by-malicious-actor-state-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432112\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida driver license, motor vehicle data breached by &#8220;malicious actor,&#8221; state confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driver license and motor vehicle data were accessed by a &#8220;malicious actor,&#8221; the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The unauthorized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/data-breach\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">data breach<\/a> occurred Sept. 4 by an individual using &#8220;compromised credentials,&#8221; the department stated, adding that immediate steps were taken to contain the activity and secure its systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this time, FLHSMV has no evidence indicating that information has been misused,&#8221; the department stated.<\/p>\n<p>The department didn&#8217;t state how many individual records were accessed.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation was conducted with the Florida Digital Service and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the department intends to send letters to current driver license or identification card holders potentially affected that will offer complimentary identity and credit monitoring services and $1 million identity theft insurance for one year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Driver license and motor vehicle data were accessed by a &#8220;malicious actor,&#8221; the Florida Department of Highway Safety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[506,158652,28,30,29,1064,807],"class_list":["post-432112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-broward-county","tag-data-breach","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432112","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=432112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}