{"id":346804,"date":"2026-06-23T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346804\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:59:41","slug":"texas-cyber-command-detects-data-breach-affecting-more-than-3-million-hunting-fishing-license-customers-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346804\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Cyber Command detects data breach affecting more than 3 million hunting, fishing license customers \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-555185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Cybersecurity-1000x563.png\" alt=\"Cybersecurity\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>jaydeep_\/Pixabay<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.txcc.texas.gov\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Texas Cyber Command<\/a> is reporting a data breach involving the personal information of more than 3 million people who obtained hunting and fishing licenses from the state. The breach, involving a vendor for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tpwd.texas.gov\/about\/notification-of-data-security-incident\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Texas Parks and Wildlife Department<\/a> (TPWD), occurred last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to TPWD, Texas Cyber Command&#8217;s investigation showed an unauthorized actor may have obtained driver&#8217;s license information, passport numbers, email addresses, phone numbers and residential addresses from more than 3 million Texas hunting and fishing license customers. The department said Social Security numbers, financial information and birthdates were not compromised.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>The parks and wildlife department said it recognizes the \u201cseriousness of this issue,\u201d adding that \u201cmany\u201d of its staff are anglers and hunters who were affected by the breach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TPWD is working closely with the license system vendor to implement new safeguards and enhanced monitoring services,&#8221; the department said in its official notification about the incident. &#8220;Immediate steps were taken to strengthen access controls for customer profile data, and additional security features will be added in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Texas Cyber Command did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The parks and wildlife department said affected customers are eligible to receive one year of free credit monitoring through Kroll. Customers can confirm their eligibility by contacting a dedicated call center at 844- 959-7123. The enrollment deadline for free credit monitoring is Sept. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"jaydeep_\/Pixabay Texas Cyber Command is reporting a data breach involving the personal information of more than 3 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[294,14275,37100,123778,66,223,3621,27,32740,29,28,11881],"class_list":["post-346804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-crime","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data-breach","tag-hacking","tag-local","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-texas","tag-texas-cyber-command","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-parks-and-wildlife-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346804","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=346804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}