Confirmed breach

USA Waste-Management Resources data breach

USUnited States · TX · USA Waste-Management Resources, LLC

USA Waste-Management Resources (TX, United States) notified the Vermont Attorney General, the California Attorney General, the Texas Attorney General and the Iowa Attorney General of a data breach on 6 November 2026. It affected 6,875 people.

People affected: 6,875people
Reported: 6 November 2026Official notice and 4 more
Time to tell: 142 daysfrom 17 June 2026 · the median is 147

Found to notice: 65 days (found 2 September 2026, by the company’s letter)

What was exposed 1

Social Security numbers

How it happened

How: Phishing an unauthorized party used sophisticated social engineering tactics to access data from our systems source

What changed since it was first reported

10 November 2026 Confirmed breach, 6,875 Texas residents (Texas Attorney General)
11 November 2026 Confirmed breach, 6,875 people (claimdepot)

What the letter says

Found: On September 2, 2026, we became aware of a potential issue involving a limited portion of our information systems.
Began: an unauthorized party used sophisticated social engineering tactics to access data from our systems between June 17, 2026, and September 3, 2026
Exposed: Such sensitive personal information includes your Social Security Number.

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Read the letter (PDF), as filed with the California Attorney General.

Sources 5

Official notices are read by code from the regulator’s own register. News reports are read by an AI model; every fact taken from an article was checked word for word against it, and anything it could not find was dropped. More notices to Vermont, California, Texas, Iowa. · Corrections and changes

If USA Waste-Management Resources had your data

Look for USA Waste-Management Resources, LLC’s own notice or letter: it should say what of yours was involved. Keep it.
An ID number cannot be changed, so lock it: a credit freeze or fraud alert in the US, a credit warning (kreditadvarsel) on borger.dk in Denmark, Cifas protective registration in the UK.
Expect scams that use your details: calls, texts or emails pretending to be USA Waste-Management Resources, LLC, your bank or the police. Never give codes or passwords, never approve a sign-in you did not start, never move money.

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Earlier breaches at USA Waste-Management Resources

From the official registers’ and Have I Been Pwned’s full histories. A name match: check the notice to be sure it is the same company.

28 May 2021 California Attorney General · began 21 January 2021
28 May 2021 Washington Attorney General · 6,225 Washington residents

Questions about the USA Waste-Management Resources breach

Was USA Waste-Management Resources hacked?

What data was exposed in the USA Waste-Management Resources breach?

Social Security numbers, by the notices and reports on this page.

How do I know if I was affected?

Organisations normally tell the people whose data was involved, by letter or email, and that notice says what of yours was in it. The letter it filed is on this page. We cannot look up individual people. If you got a notice, check that it is real, then follow the steps on this page.

Is there a USA Waste-Management Resources data breach settlement?

No settlement open for claims is on record for USA Waste-Management Resources as of 15 November 2026. A settlement usually comes a year or more after a breach, if a court approves one. Every open settlement is listed with its deadline.

Is a letter, email or text about the USA Waste-Management Resources breach real or a scam?

A real notice names the breach, says what data was involved and never asks for a password, a code or a payment. Criminals often send fake notices after a breach is in the news. Do not use links or phone numbers in the message: go to USA Waste-Management Resources’s own site, or check the letter here.

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Data breach settlements open for claims

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