LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — Data was stolen from Nevada systems by “malicious actors,” and state investigators are working with the FBI to determine the extent of the breach and the nature of the theft.

A Carson City press conference Wednesday afternoon came as state services were interrupted for a third day due to the cyberattack.

Officials from the governor’s office said the outage began Sunday morning when the state was targeted in a cyberattack . Timothy Galluzi, Executive Director of the Governor’s Technology Office, stated that the attack was ransomware-based.

“Our state data center operations team detected anomalous activity in our server infrastructure. Our teams acted immediately, and by late Sunday our concerns where confirmed: the State of Nevada has become the target of a sophi

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