Credit monitoring offered following Fish and Game data breach

An Idaho Fish and Game contractor is offering two years of free credit monitoring following last month's data breach of the department's online hunting and fishing license system.

If you were in the Fish and Game database before 2007, your personal information – including names, addresses and social security numbers may have been accessed by an outside party.

Fish and Game regional manager Toby Boudreau says if you've received a letter in the mail about a data breach, it's not a scam.

"Absolutely, those letters are completely legitimate. If you were in our database prior to 2007. The instructions it gives, if you'd like credit monitoring, are definitely true and correct."

Boudreau says if you haven't yet received a letter, it doesn't mean you won't get one. Active Outdoors is sending them out in waves.

For more information on the letter and what you can do to protect your identity,

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