Texas Data Breach Exposes 3 Million Driver's Licenses and Passports from State Agency
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Ken Macon
Summary
Texas suffered a major data breach where hackers stole driver's license and passport numbers of over 3 million people from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The breach is particularly notable because the state government has been simultaneously pushing for digital ID requirements to access websites, highlighting the irony of demanding more identity verification while failing to protect existing identity documents.
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· 3 pulledThe same government now demanding digital ID to enter websites just proved it can't guard the identity documents it already holds.
Hackers pulled the driver's license and passport numbers of more than 3 million people out of a state government system, in one of the largest breaches Texas has reported this year.
The stolen records came from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the agency that sells hun
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