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Texas government data breach allowed hackers to steal 3 million driver’s licenses and passports
Key takeaways
- A data breach at a Texas state government department allowed hackers to take the driver s license information and passport numbers of more than 3 million people, according to the state s attorney general.
- The incident is one of the largest data breaches to affect the state this year.
- The department did not name the vendor, nor respond to TechCrunch s request for comment about the incident, and whether the department has received any outreach from the hackers.
A data breach at a Texas state government department allowed hackers to take the driver s license information and passport numbers of more than 3 million people, according to the state s attorney general.
The incident is one of the largest data breaches to affect the state this year.
In a data breach notice on the Texas Parks & Wildlife website, the department said the state s cybersecurity unit recently detected a security incident — the nature of which, or when, were not specified — that allowed hackers to access to the department s license system vendor, which handles the sale of hunting and fishing licenses.
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