Trump Mobile Hackers Target Health Records of 2 Million Texans
Trump Mobile Hackers Target Health Records of 2 Million Texans 🚨
A ransomware gang behind the Trump Mobile breach claims to have stolen sensitive records belonging to around two million Texans in an alleged breach of the state agency responsible for healthcare and social assistance programs. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has allegedly been breached by a ransomware gang known as BYOD. The notice about the alleged breach appeared on the gang’s dark web leak site. The attackers claim that a vulnerability in the organization’s system allowed them to compromise it. The HHSC is the state agency that manages health and human services programs for Texas residents, serving more than 7.5 million people every month.
According to the attackers, roughly two million Texans may be at risk, as the stolen data includes:
- Medicaid records
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) records
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) records
- Disaster assistance records
- Banking information
“The data types claimed to have been stolen could be used for various types of fraud,” said the Cybernews research team. Researchers added, “Attackers could exploit such data to open credit accounts, apply for loans, or file fraudulent tax returns.” The team further stated, “Attackers could also attempt to take over bank accounts, perform SNAP/EBT fraud, or target victims with highly personalized social engineering campaigns.”
At the time of writing, the leak site is down. However, so far, the gang has not released any data samples to back up its claims. BYOD is a new ransomware gang that first surfaced in September 2026. The gang previously published data belonging to 3,615 Trump Mobile users on its leak site. Additionally, the gang targeted the University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center, claiming to have compromised 36,000 machines, including Active Directory systems for the main campus and hospital networks. After realizing that the breached machines were actively supporting real-time patient care, the gang issued an apology and offered a free decryptor for the hospital division.
If the allegations prove legitimate, it will not be the first time the commission has been targeted. In January 2025, a data breach affected more than 61,000 recipients of Medicaid, CHIP, TANF, and SNAP. An initial investigation revealed that the breach resulted from employees illegally accessing personal account information contained in client records between June 2021 and December 2024. It remains unknown whether the current data breach claims are connected to the previous incident in any way.