Wisconsin

Hey there, so I just saw that Wisconsin DMV has started warning residents about these phishing texts.

I'm just curious have you heard anything else about issues with stolen data or anything like that from the Wisconsin DMV?

Louisiana had an incident a few years ago where state government servers were hacked, and then a few years later pretty much every adult in LA had their data breached by a cyber attack at the Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV).

We never heard much else about it, but on the 20th of March the current governor reissued the state of emergency for the incident, gave the director of the governors office of Homeland security and emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) the authority to handle it, then moved GOHSEP under the National guard and named a Louisiana guardsman interim director of GOHSEP. There's been continuing weirdness around it since, but not much detail.

Just wondering if there's any connection between the two. Seems like odd timing to be getting the message from your DMV.

https://wisconsindot.gov/Pages/about-wisdot/newsroom/news-rel/032825phishscam.aspx

https://louisianarecord.com/stories/670486434-murrill-warns-louisiana-residents-about-fake-toll-scam-texts

https://www.nola.com/news/politics/jeff-landry-restructure-gohsep-under-louisiana-national-guard-fiscal-responsibility/article_7e9e08f2-ee67-463c-a2b3-424f6165a087.html

https://www.fox8live.com/2025/03/21/gov-landry-declares-state-emergency-response-louisiana-omv-disruptions/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/louisiana-commissioner-office-motor-vehicles-231107729.html

https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2025/04/01/heres-the-latest-in-louisianas-office-of-motor-vehicles-outage-crisis/82754080007/