data privacy

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

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued General Motors on Tuesday, alleging the manufacturing giant illegally collected and sold private driver information without consent.

The agreement was reached on the eve of a scheduled trial date. It marks the largest settlement of its kind achieved by a single state, according to the Texas attorney general’s office.

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.

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.

More than 2,000 patients have had their personal medical information leaked in a UT Southwestern Medical Center data breach

In addition to taking down several of the city of Dallas' crucial services, the attack exposed thousands of people's data to hackers. A UT Dallas cybersecurity expert spoke with KERA about how the breach played out and why.

Attorney General Ken Paxton asserts that the company, which recently rebranded itself as Meta, violated state law when it captured users' facial features without proper consent. Paxton was also questioned if his choice of venue for the announcement had anything to do with one of his primary opponents.

For more than a decade, some Texas county clerks’ offices have left thousands of unredacted social security numbers online — exposing people to COVID relief fund theft and other identity crimes. County clerks never told people they were exposed, and the state government hasn’t prioritized protecting this crucial piece of their personal information.

A massive data leak potentially revealed 885 million documents detailing private mortgage information last month, many including social security and...