LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — For a fourth day, Nevada state government services and websites are experiencing outages as systems are recovered after Sunday’s cyberattack.
State officials detailed the outage Wednesday, saying the attack was ransomware-based and that “malicious actors” took data from the state’s network. Timothy Galluzi, executive director of the Governor’s Office of Science, Innovation and Technology, said at a Wednesday news conference that although the forensic investigation found evidence of data extraction, it had yet to be determined what type of data was taken.
“The process of analyzing information to determine exactly what was taken is complex, methodical and time-consuming,” Galluzi said. “Speculation on what data was affected before we have definitive proof would be irresponsible.”
Joseph Oregon, deputy director for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said the department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was working to help restore state services.
“As America’s cyber defense agency, CISA is leading federal coordination with our state and local partners to restore necessary critical services as the state of Nevada responds to and recovers from this incident,” Oregon said.
As the investigation continues, state services are still experiencing outages. The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles remained closed Thursday, with all in-person and online transactions unavailable except for Rapid Registration and Turbo Titles. Officials said canceled appointments due to the outage would be honored as walk-ins for two weeks once the department reopens.
A Wednesday news release acknowledged that the Nevada Supreme Court had experienced issues due to the cyberattack, which extended from email to phone systems and the public case portal. Officials advised users to continue trying to file electronically.
Gov. Joe Lombardo is scheduled to speak publicly on the cyberattack for the first time Thursday at a 1 p.m. news conference.
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