Commissioners used opioid-settlement proceeds to buy cryptocurrency; the county has not disclosed whether access has been restored, what data was stolen or who carried out the attack.
Davison County workers were warned not to open city emails, while Mitchell’s mayor said there was no indication the city’s email environment was affected.
The county is restoring affected systems after a technology disruption while officials investigate the cause and emergency services remain operational.
County officials said all government systems were offline Thursday, while 911 remained operational and the circuit court clerk reported its phone lines were down.
A 15-hour outage affected three public websites, but 911, 311, bill payments and permit services remained available, and officials reported no intrusion or data loss.
The clerk’s office said it removed a malicious script after some website links redirected users to an unauthorized third-party site, with no evidence internal systems were accessed.
The sheriff’s office said hackers hit its systems twice, forcing a suspension of some Texas Public Information Act deadlines while records work is rebuilt.
