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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department: license vendor breach exposes 3 million+ hunting and fishing customers
Texas Cyber Command detected an incident on 13 May 2026 at the vendor that sells TPWD hunting and fishing licenses.
- Disclosed
What happened
- Texas Cyber Command detected an incident on 13 May 2026 at the vendor that sells TPWD hunting and fishing licenses. More than 3 million customers may have had driver license data, passport numbers (where given), emails, phone numbers and addresses obtained. TPWD says SSNs, dates of birth and card data were not obtained.
- Root cause / initial access: not disclosed; vendor not named on TPWD’s page.
- Attacker: not identified.
- Response: customer-profile access controls strengthened immediately, enhanced monitoring with the vendor; license sales continued.
Sources
- https://tpwd.texas.gov/about/notification-of-data-security-incident
- https://www.cm-alliance.com/cybersecurity-blog/june-2026-biggest-cyber-attacks-data-breaches-ransomware-attacks
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