{"id":398175,"date":"2026-09-12T21:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398175\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T21:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:42:11","slug":"florida-investigates-data-breach-tied-to-cybercriminal-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398175\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida investigates data breach tied to cybercriminal organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida investigates data breach tied to cybercriminal organization<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is investigating a data breach involving a police department employee\u2019s credentials exploited by an international cybercriminal organization.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789249331_740_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Malcolm Shields\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Officials are investigating a data breach involving a government database in Florida.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FLHSMV\/status\/2098239548660514979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced on Thursday, Sept. 10<\/a>, that on Sept. 4, it learned of a data breach by an international cybercriminal organization.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Stay up-to-date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">It said the data breach was quickly mitigated, and no further breach has occurred or is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Its investigation revealed that the criminal organization was able to take advantage of a single Plant City Police Department user\u2019s credentials that were improperly housed on the employee\u2019s personal electronic device.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles informed the Florida Attorney General\u2019s Office about the data breach and is also partnering with the Florida Digital Service and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in its response to the event.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida investigates data breach tied to cybercriminal organization The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[158651,158652,158650,28,7912,30,158649,29,158654,47057,6686,1598,7885,158653,2248,26002,221,189],"class_list":["post-398175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-cybercriminal-organization","tag-data-breach","tag-datum-breach","tag-florida","tag-florida-attorney-general","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-investigates-data-breach-tied-to-cybercriminal-organization","tag-florida-news","tag-government-database","tag-highway-safety","tag-late-headline","tag-law-enforcement","tag-motor-vehicles","tag-personal-electronic-device","tag-sept","tag-up-to-date","tag-weather","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398175","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=398175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}