Account access, registration, payments and phone service were disrupted before fall classes, while the university reported no evidence that university data was accessed or exfiltrated.
The county is restoring affected systems after a technology disruption while officials investigate the cause and emergency services remain operational.
Technology systems remain unavailable across the Fort Worth health network, forcing manual procedures and delaying records responses as the cause remains undisclosed.
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 sheriff’s office said hackers hit its systems twice, forcing a suspension of some Texas Public Information Act deadlines while records work is rebuilt.
Officials said the incident affected a limited number of county systems and former sheriff’s office employees, while emergency services were not interrupted.
