{"id":432600,"date":"2026-10-20T02:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432600\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T02:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:12:13","slug":"florida-confirms-state-drivers-license-data-breached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432600\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida confirms state driver\u2019s license data breached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Driver\u2019s license and motor vehicle data were accessed by a \u201cmalicious actor,\u201d the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The unauthorized breach occurred Sept. 4 by an individual using \u201ccompromised credentials,\u201d the department stated, adding that immediate steps were taken to contain the activity and secure its systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAt this time, FLHSMV (the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles) has no evidence indicating that information has been misused,\u201d the department stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The department didn\u2019t state how many individual records were accessed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An investigation was conducted with the Florida Digital Service and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Still, the department intends to send letters to current driver\u2019s license or identification card holders potentially affected that will offer complimentary identity and credit monitoring services and $1 million identity theft insurance for 1 year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Driver\u2019s license and motor vehicle data were accessed by a \u201cmalicious actor,\u201d the Department of Highway Safety and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,45291,39693,2555],"class_list":["post-432600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-section-crime","tag-section-florida-politics","tag-section-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432600","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=432600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}