Houston Public MediaTwo Katy ISD students are working to make tools such as electronics, camping gear and lawn equipment more accessible to their communities.
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The Fort Bend County Libraries website will be fully operational starting Sept. 2, roughly six months after a cyberattack, according to county officials.
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The Fort Bend County Libraries’ website may not be fully operational until late summer or early fall, following a cyberattack earlier this year.
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Fort Bend County library catalog, accounts could remain unavailable for months after cyberattack
Library Director Roosevelt Weeks says there is no evidence that patrons’ personal data has been breached as part of the cyberattack, which the county became aware of in late February. During a special session on March 6, Fort Bend County commissioners approved more than $2.6 million in IT contracts under an agenda item titled "library update."
The Fort Bend County District Attorney’s Office is investigating the cyberattack on the county’s library system.
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Fort Bend County DA’s Office investigating library cyberattack
Fort Bend County commissioners have approved nearly $3 million in library-related IT contracts in the aftermath of the cybersecurity attack. The county has not confirmed whether those contracts are related to the attack.
The Fort Bend County Libraries system experienced a “cybersecurity incident” that caused a website outage. The cause of the attack remains under investigation.
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Fort Bend County Libraries system faces website outage after ‘cybersecurity incident’
The library collects patrons’ names, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth and addresses when they sign up for library cards. Library staff said there’s no evidence to suggest that this data has been compromised during the cyberattack.