Personal Data of 1.8M Texans Exposed for Years by Texas Department of Insurance

The confidential personal data of 1. 8 million Texans was exposed and available to the public for almost three years, according to a state audit report released last week. Information including names, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth of Texans who filed workers’ compensation claims with the Texas Department of Insurance was publicly available online from March 2019 until January 2022.

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