{"id":139475,"date":"2022-05-17T19:34:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T00:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/almost-2-million-texans-affected-by-texas-department-of-insurance-data-breach"},"modified":"2022-05-17T19:34:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T00:34:44","slug":"almost-2-million-texans-affected-by-texas-department-of-insurance-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/almost-2-million-texans-affected-by-texas-department-of-insurance-data-breach","title":{"rendered":"Almost 2 million Texans affected by Texas Department of Insurance data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/almost-2-million-texans-affected-by-texas-department-of-insurance-data-breach2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/05\/16\/texas-insurance-data-breach\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tribune<\/a>\/KXAN) \u2014 A massive security breach at the Texas Department of Insurance leaked the personal information of almost 2 million Texans for nearly three years, according to a state audit released last week.<\/p>\n<p>The department said the personal information of 1.8 million workers who have filed compensation claims \u2014 including Social Security numbers, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and information about workers\u2019 injuries \u2014 was accessible online to members of the public from March 2019 to January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Though personal information was compromised \u2013 the agency now says there\u2019s no reason to believe the data was used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Texas Tribune\/KXAN) \u2014 A massive security breach at the Texas Department of Insurance leaked the personal information of almost 2 million Texans for nearly three years, according to a state audit released last week. The department said the personal information of 1.8 million workers who have filed compensation claims \u2014 including Social Security numbers, addresses, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}