Nearly 300,000 crash records stolen from Texas transportation department

State agencies in Texas and Illinois released warnings in recent days about data breaches affecting the sensitive information of thousands of people. 

Texas said hackers compromised an account at the Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and discovered unusual activity on May 12 involving its Crash Records Information System (CRIS).

An investigation found that the compromised account was used to access and download almost 300,000 crash reports. Texas is legally required to maintain CRIS, which tracks all details of crashes and the people involved. 

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