2026 Palacios Marine & Industrial Coatings — unauthorized access (~12.2k TX/ME residents; Mar)
Data compromised
Names, SSNs, IDs, financial account fields, credentials, passport numbers (varies)
Technical writeup
Palacios Marine & Industrial Coatings Inc. (PMI), a Port Lavaca, Texas–based industrial contractor, disclosed unauthorized access to its computer systems with discovery on March 13, 2026, and written notifications beginning around March 30, 2026. Regulatory summaries cited at least 12,227 Texas residents and one Maine resident in early filings—12,228 individuals combined—with data types described as potentially including names, Social Security numbers, government ID numbers, financial account information, usernames and passwords, and passport numbers depending on the person. The company reported engagement with incident response and offered guidance on fraud monitoring.
Root cause
Unauthorized access to corporate systems (vector not detailed in public summaries)