Security News > 2024 > January > Europcar denies data breach of 50 million users, says data is fake
Car rental company Europcar says it has not suffered a data breach and that shared customer data is fake after a threat actor claimed to be selling the personal info of 50 million customers.
The post included samples of the stolen data for 31 alleged Europcar customers, including names, addresses, birth dates, driver's license numbers, and other information.
After contacting Europcar last night, BleepingComputer was told that the breach was fake and that the data was fabricated using artificial intelligence.
The second indicator that the data is fake is that the addresses simply do not exist.
As pointed out by security researcher NexusFuzzy, there are existing projects that allow anyone to create data that looks almost exactly like what was shared in the fake data breach samples.
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