{"id":341590,"date":"2026-06-18T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341590\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:42:11","slug":"texas-government-data-breach-allowed-hackers-to-steal-3-million-drivers-licenses-and-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341590\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas government data breach allowed hackers to steal 3 million driver&#8217;s licenses and passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A data breach at a Texas state government department allowed hackers to take the driver\u2019s license information and passport numbers of more than 3 million people, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/oag.my.site.com\/datasecuritybreachreport\/apex\/DataSecurityReportsPage\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> the state\u2019s attorney general.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident is one of the largest data breaches to affect the state this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a data breach notice on the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tpwd.texas.gov\/about\/notification-of-data-security-incident\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Parks &amp; Wildlife<\/a> website, the department said the state\u2019s cybersecurity unit recently detected a security incident \u2014 the nature of which, or when, were not specified \u2014 that allowed hackers to access to the department\u2019s license system vendor, which handles the sale of hunting and fishing licenses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The department did not name the vendor, nor respond to TechCrunch\u2019s request for comment about the incident, and whether the department has received any outreach from the hackers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The breach also included email addresses, phone numbers and residential addresses of the affected license holders, the department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A data breach at a Texas state government department allowed hackers to take the driver\u2019s license information and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14275,37100,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-341590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data-breach","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}