{"id":345905,"date":"2026-06-22T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345905\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:27:11","slug":"tpwd-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345905\/","title":{"rendered":"TPWD data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEXAS \u2014 The information of more than 3 million Texas hunting and fishing license holders was exposed in a recent cybersecurity breach, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/tpwd.texas.gov\/about\/notification-of-data-security-incident\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An \u201cunauthorized actor\u201d may have obtained driver license information, passport numbers, email addresses, phone numbers and residential addresses of customers, the department said, adding that Social Security numbers, dates of birth and financial information including credit card details were not affected.<\/p>\n<p>TPWD staff members who hold hunting and fishing licenses were also affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to continuing to work with the license system vendor to implement increased safeguards to prevent future incidents,\u201d the department said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the breach, TPWD says it has implemented additional security options. The department is also providing affected customers one free year of credit monitoring through Kroll. The enrollment deadline is Sept. 13, 2026. Customers can call the company\u2019s call center at (844) 959-7123 from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CT, Monday through Friday, to confirm their eligibility or ask questions about the data breach incident.<\/p>\n<p>TPWD says the following precautions can be taken in the aftermath of the breach:<\/p>\n<p>Monitor your credit report\/financial statements for any unauthorized activity<br \/>\nFreeze your credit if necessary<br \/>\nScammers may use personal information to impersonate companies or officials. Avoid clicking links or sharing personal details unless you are certain the request is legitimate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 The information of more than 3 million Texas hunting and fishing license holders was exposed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2160,132,134,133,1226,102,223,82,3621,27,2053],"class_list":["post-345905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-top-stories","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-christine-sanchez","tag-dallas","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-technology","tag-texas","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345905","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=345905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}