Word of God Fellowship, Inc., doing business as Daystar Television Network, is a prominent faith-based broadcasting organization operating a major international Christian television network. As a large-scale media enterprise with an extensive global footprint, Daystar collects, processes, and maintains a substantial volume of sensitive personal and financial data. This information encompasses not only internal personnel records for its ministry staff, media producers, and administrative employees, but also comprehensive records concerning its extensive donor base, supporters, volunteers, and broadcast partners. Because religious and non-profit organizations frequently process recurring donations, handle sensitive donor intent data, and maintain detailed human resources files, they hold an attractive repository of personally identifiable information that requires rigorous digital safeguards.
In 2025, Word of God Fellowship, Inc. reported a significant data security incident to the Texas Attorney General. While the precise technical vector remains under scrutiny, incidents affecting large media and non-profit organizations typically involve unauthorized access to internal databases, compromise of cloud-hosted donor management systems, or vulnerabilities within third-party vendor platforms used for payment processing and constituent relationship management. When threat actors infiltrate these networks, they can silently harvest extensive files containing confidential personal details before the organization detects the intrusion or manages to secure the compromised environment.
The exposure resulting from the Daystar Television Network data breach involves categories of sensitive data that carry severe downstream risks for affected individuals. Exposed information commonly includes full legal names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, banking and credit card details utilized for donations or payroll, home addresses, and potentially donor giving history or employee compensation records. The compromise of Social Security numbers and banking details immediately exposes victims to severe threats of identity theft, unauthorized financial account takeovers, fraudulent credit applications, and targeted phishing scams that exploit an individual's relationship with the ministry. Financial data leakage further increases the risk of direct monetary loss and prolonged disruption to personal financial management.
Under Texas state law, including the Texas Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act, and broader common-law principles, organizations like Word of God Fellowship, Inc. have an affirmative legal duty to implement reasonable security procedures to protect sensitive personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. The occurrence of a data breach of this magnitude strongly indicates potential failures in network segmentation, encryption standards, or timely vulnerability patching. Failing to maintain adequate cybersecurity defenses exposes the organization to legal scrutiny for negligence, breach of implied contract, and failure to adequately safeguard the private data entrusted to them by donors, employees, and partners.
Receiving a data breach notification letter from Word of God Fellowship, Inc. d/b/a Daystar Television Network is a formal acknowledgment that your private information was compromised due to inadequate security measures. Legally, this notification establishes the foundation for standing to participate in a class action lawsuit aimed at holding the organization accountable for failing to protect your data. Under the law, affected individuals do not need to wait until financial fraud has actually occurred to seek legal recourse; the increased and imminent risk of identity theft is sufficient. Our law firm is investigating this data breach on a contingency fee basis, meaning there are never any out-of-pocket costs or fees unless we successfully recover compensation on your behalf.