Texas government data breach allowed hackers to steal 3 million driver’s licenses and passports

In Brief

A information breach astatine a Texas authorities authorities section allowed hackers to instrumentality the driver’s licence accusation and passport numbers of much than 3 cardinal people, according to the state’s lawyer general. 

The incidental is 1 of the largest information breaches to impact the authorities this year.

In a information breach announcement connected the Texas Parks & Wildlife website, the section said the state’s cybersecurity portion precocious detected a information incidental — the quality of which, oregon when, were not specified — that allowed hackers to entree to the department’s licence strategy vendor, which handles the merchantability of hunting and sportfishing licenses. 

The section did not sanction the vendor, nor respond to TechCrunch’s petition for remark astir the incident, and whether the section has received immoderate outreach from the hackers.

The breach besides included email addresses, telephone numbers and residential addresses of the affected licence holders, the section said.

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