Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has started notifying people whose driver license and motor vehicle records were exposed in a breach the agency learned of on September 4, 2026. In a public notice posted Friday, October 16, the department said a malicious actor accessed certain department records using compromised credentials.

Those credentials belonged to a local police employee. FLHSMV’s September 11 statement said the attacker took advantage of “a single Plant City Police Department user’s credentials that were improperly housed on the employee’s personal electronic device.” According to CBS12 , the account had access to DAVID, the state’s Driver and Vehicle Information Database used by law enforcement and authorized government agencies.

What was exposed

The investigation, run with the Florida Digital Service and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, found that the affected information includes driver license and motor vehicle data, document images and other…