After more than a month of silence, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is giving next steps after a breach of the Driver and Vehicle Information Database (DAVID).
If your records were part of the database, you can expect mail from FLHSMV in the near future, the agency said Friday afternoon at 5:25 p.m. You will also receive one year of credit monitoring and identity theft insurance.
“FLHSMV will be sending letters this week to current driver’s license or identification card holders potentially impacted by the breach. Additionally, to protect the identity of those impacted, we have partnered with Sontiq, Inc., a TransUnion company, to offer complimentary identity and credit monitoring services and $1 million identity theft insurance for 1 year,” reads a statement from the agency.
If you do not get mail and you previously held a Florida driver license, Florida identification card, or Florida title, contact FLHSMV at [email protected].
The hack, which exposed the data through a password-reset weakness in the system, is acknowledged as an issue of “compromised credentials.”
The hack exposed driver’s license and motor vehicle data, along with other personal information.
This is the first update since last month, when the department posted the following to social media after inquiries from Florida Politics.
“On September 4, 2026, FLHSMV learned of a data breach conducted by an international cybercriminal organization. The data breach was quickly mitigated, and no further breach has occurred or is ongoing. The Department immediately launched an investigation, which determined that a criminal actor was able to take advantage of a single Plant City Police Department user’s credentials that were improperly housed on the employee’s personal electronic device.”
That date was one day after Sept. 3, when the hacker group known as ShinyHunters said it accessed the data.
The hackers gave FLHSMV a deadline of Sept. 11 to make a deal, or they would release the data. The department’s press release makes no mention of any attempts to get the data returned.
At this time, FLHSMV has no evidence that the information was misused.
There is also no indication that the user suffered any sanction for his lapse.
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