Texas government data breach exposes 3 million driver's licenses and passport numbers
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Zack Whittaker
Summary
A data breach at a Texas state government department allowed hackers to steal the driver's license information and passport numbers of over 3 million people. The Texas Parks & Wildlife department disclosed that the state's cybersecurity unit detected a security incident that compromised their license system vendor, which handles hunting license sales. The breach is one of the largest to affect the state this year, though specific details about the nature and timing of the incident were not disclosed.
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· 3 pulledA 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
The incident is one of the largest data breaches to affect the state this year.
the state's cybersecurity unit recently detected a security incident — the nature of which, or when, was not specified — that allowed hackers to access the department's license system vendor, which handles the sale of hunt
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