Texas county issues disaster declaration following cyberattack

Matagorda County, Texas (serving ~37–40k residents) experienced a cyberattack discovered on a Friday that impacted multiple internal systems and disrupted some operations, prompting a county disaster declaration. Officials report the incident was contained to internal systems, emergency services were unaffected, restoration of some services is in progress, and state/federal cybersecurity teams and the FBI have been notified; no attacker or confirmed data theft has been publicly identified.