A cyberattack over the weekend snarled state offices and websites in Nevada, leading them to shut down on Monday and Tuesday. Efforts to fix the issues are ongoing.
The attack happened Sunday morning, the office of Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, said in a release. The state’s government offices were targeted specifically, and the incident is under state and federal investigation.
The governor’s office said Tuesday that there was no evidence that anyone’s personal identifying information was compromised or leaked via the attack. Voter data is also secure, officials said.
“The secretary of state’s office is working alongside the governor’s office and the governor’s technology office in response to the network outage impacting various state services. The SOS office’s website and protected data, including voter data, are on separate infrastructure from the affected state systems,” the Nevada secretary of state’s office told the Las Vegas area’s KVVU-TV.
State offices will announce when they reopen.
State websites and phone lines may be unavailable or slow, the governor’s office said, but emergency calls and other essential services are still available.
The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles said Tuesday that it’s closed until further notice, with the exception of its online titling and registration programs. Appointments that got canceled due to the outages will be honored for the two-week period after the department reopens its doors, motor vehicles officials said on social media.
Other Nevada state offices are using a variety of stopgap measures as the state works to get everything back online.
The Nevada Department of Agriculture, for example, is using paper and hotspot systems for inspections and to keep animal disease labs running, the governor’s office said, while the Nevada Department of Education is processing teacher licenses in person.
Some other state offices, including the departments of Human Services and Taxation reopened Wednesday, the former for calls and limited in-person service and the latter for in-person service.
