Overview
- UTSA detected attempted unauthorized activity at the edge of its network over the weekend and University Technology Solutions moved to contain it on Aug. 17.
- Officials postponed the semester start to Monday, Aug. 24, to give teams time to restore systems and validate protections before classes resume.
- The shutdown of some services has blocked access to registration, Canvas, payment portals and phone lines and led the university to extend payment and enrollment deadlines.
- UTSA and outside incident responders report no evidence so far that university data was accessed or stolen, but technical details and attribution have not been released.
- The outage highlights recurring risks for universities at term start when heavy online traffic and essential deadlines raise the impact of cyber incidents for tens of thousands of students.