Overview
- State cyber officials say Texas Cyber Command detected a breach at a third‑party vendor that sells hunting and fishing licenses and that customer driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, email addresses, phone numbers and home addresses may have been accessed.
- The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department says it has tightened access controls for customer profiles, is working with the vendor to add security safeguards, and will continue license sales as scheduled.
- Impacted customers are being offered one year of free credit monitoring through Kroll with an enrollment deadline of Sept. 14, 2026, and TPWD has set up a dedicated support line at 844‑959‑7123.
- A report about the incident was filed with the Texas Attorney General and the state is investigating, but officials have not publicly identified the vendor or attributed the attack, leaving forensic questions unresolved.
- Officials say Social Security numbers, birth dates, payment card data and minors’ records were not accessed, yet experts warn stolen license and passport numbers plus addresses still raise meaningful identity‑fraud and impersonation risks and underscore third‑party vendor vulnerability for state services.