On Sept. 19, 2025, the facilities services provider, Red Coats, disclosed a data breach to the Texas Attorney General’s office. According to the official report, the cybersecurity incident compromised personally identifiable information (PII) of an unknown number of individuals.
Exposed information names, addresses, Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers. The Texas Attorney General’s office published the breach details on its Data Security Breach Reports page, noting that at least 1,737 Texas residents were affected.
Red Coats serves multiple regions throughout the United States, so it is believed that several thousand current and former employees and contractors were affected by the breach.
In addition to required state and federal disclosures, the company is notifying impacted individuals by mail.
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