The personal data of some UK Renault customers has been stolen by hackers following the latest in a series of major cyber attacks on global businesses.

Renault Group UK emailed drivers to confirm that a third-party data processing business used by the car firm was targeted by hackers.

As a result, “some customers’ personal data has been taken from one of their systems”, Renault said.

It is has been reported that some owners and customers of Dacia vehicles, which are also made by Renault, have also been affected.

The company stressed that no financial data, such as bank account details, or password data was compromised in the attack.

But it said data accessed in the hack included some or all of: customer names, addresses, dates of birth, gender, phone number, vehicle identification

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