State officials announced Wednesday they are taking steps to restore essential services but acknowledge evidence of data exfiltration after Nevada was targeted in a cybersecurity attack on Saturday.

Tim Galluzi, state chief information officer and executive director of the Governor’s Technology Office, stated in a press conference Wednesday a data center operations team detected anomalous activity from “malicious actors” within its server infrastructure. State and federal partners could not identify nor classify who was responsible for the attack and continue investigating the matter, he said.

In response, the team worked to contain the threat and took systems offline to prevent further intrusion. However, it meant causing delays in direct access to state agencies or the services they pr

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