{"id":278886,"date":"2026-06-22T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/texas-cyber-command-detects-data-breach-affecting-more-than-3-million-hunting-fishing-license-customers-houston-public-media\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:45:10","slug":"texas-cyber-command-detects-data-breach-affecting-more-than-3-million-hunting-fishing-license-customers-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/texas-cyber-command-detects-data-breach-affecting-more-than-3-million-hunting-fishing-license-customers-houston-public-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Cyber Command detects data breach affecting more than 3 million hunting, fishing license customers \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/texas\/2026\/06\/22\/555183\/texas-parks-wildlife-data-breach-fishing-license-hunting\/\">Texas Cyber Command detects data breach affecting more than 3 million hunting, fishing license customers \u2013 Houston Public Media<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/texas\/2026\/06\/22\/555183\/texas-parks-wildlife-data-breach-fishing-license-hunting\/\">https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/texas\/2026\/06\/22\/555183\/texas-parks-wildlife-data-breach-fishing-license-hunting\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-22 16:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.houstonpublicmedia.org\">www.houstonpublicmedia.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>jaydeep_\/Pixabay<\/p>\n<p>Texas Cyber Command is reporting a data breach involving the personal information of more than 3 million people who obtained hunting and fishing licenses from the state. The breach, involving a vendor for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), occurred last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to TPWD, Texas Cyber Command&#8217;s investigation showed an unauthorized actor may have obtained driver&#8217;s license information, passport numbers, email addresses, phone numbers and residential addresses from more than 3 million Texas hunting and fishing license customers. The department said Social Security numbers, financial information and birthdates were not compromised.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the Hello, Houston! daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>The parks and wildlife department said it recognizes the \u201cseriousness of this issue,\u201d adding that \u201cmany\u201d of its staff are anglers and hunters who were affected by the breach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TPWD is working closely with the license system vendor to implement new safeguards and enhanced monitoring services,&#8221; the department said in its official notification about the incident. &#8220;Immediate steps were taken to strengthen access controls for customer profile data, and additional security features will be added in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Texas Cyber Command did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The parks and wildlife department said affected customers are eligible to receive one year of free credit monitoring through Kroll. Customers can confirm their eligibility by contacting a dedicated call center at 844- 959-7123. The enrollment deadline for free credit monitoring is Sept. 14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/texas\/2026\/06\/22\/555183\/texas-parks-wildlife-data-breach-fishing-license-hunting\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Cyber Command detects data breach affecting more than 3 million hunting, fishing license customers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.houstonpublicmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/22132323\/Cybersecurity-1500x844.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,57],"class_list":["post-278886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278890,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278886\/revisions\/278890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}