Data

Dr. Eithan Haim of Dallas had faced four counts for wrongfully disclosing the individually identifiable health information of underage patients at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.

The agency said information inappropiately accessed or obtained includes full names, home addresses, Social Security numbers, and banking information.

The Texas Department of Public Safety this week reported 115,071 customers information have been involved in a data leak.

Hackers last October got names, addresses, phone numbers of Dallas County employees — including those of high-level elected officials.

The Dallas-based telecommunications company says it doesn't believe the data compromised in a breach that affected nearly all its more than 100 million customers is public.

A security breach in 2022 compromised the data of nearly all of AT&T’s cellular customers, customers of mobile virtual network operators using AT&T’s wireless network, as well as landline customers who interacted with those cellular numbers.

Fort Worth zoning commissioners narrowly voted against a proposal to build a data center across the road from Tarleton State University’s Fort Worth campus.

The Association of Texas Professional Educators, the largest independent educators’ association in the United States, was hit with a data breach that compromised the information of more than 414,000 Texans.

Dallas-based telecommunications company Frontier Communications Parent suffered a data breach in April that compromised the information of more than 88,000 Texans and hundreds of thousands more across the country.

AT&T said that a dataset found on the dark web contains information including some Social Security numbers and passcodes for about 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders. Whether the data originated from AT&T or one of its vendors is still unknown.

The Dallas-based company says a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information such as Social Security numbers for about 7.6 million current account holders.

Dallas County commissioners voted to extend the interim IT director's contract while they continue searching for a permanent "chief information officer."