Texas Parks & Wildlife – 3 Million Licences Exposed in a Vendor Breach

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A clean, cautionary supply-chain story from the US. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department disclosed that attackers breached the third-party vendor processing its hunting and fishing licences, exposing personal data — including driver's-licence and passport numbers — for more than three million people. No ransomware, no dramatic leak site; just a quiet vendor compromise leaking exactly the kind of identity documents you can't change. We dig into why government-via-vendor breaches keep happening, and why passport and licence numbers are the data attackers now want most.

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Sources: SecurityWeek; KXAN.