Overview
- Texas Cyber Command detected a cybersecurity incident tied to the vendor that operates Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s hunting and fishing license sales and TPWD notified affected users.
- A listing from the Texas attorney general quantifies the impact at 3,087,721 Texans whose records may have been accessed.
- TPWD says investigators believe driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, email addresses, phone numbers and residential addresses may have been obtained.
- TPWD asserts Social Security numbers, dates of birth and financial or credit card information were not taken and the department is offering one year of free credit monitoring through Kroll plus a dedicated call center.
- Officials say license sales will continue while the agency implements added safeguards and investigates the attack, highlighting the wider risk that third-party vendors pose to state systems and raising the chance of follow-on identity-fraud attempts for affected people.