Overview
- University officials said attempted unauthorized activity was detected at the edge of UTSA’s network and that University Technology Solutions, working with outside incident response partners, moved to contain it on Aug. 17.
- UTSA reports its investigation so far has found no evidence that university data was accessed or exfiltrated.
- As a precaution, the university proactively took some systems offline, which caused outages and delays for phone service, the password-reset tool, online registration and tuition payments.
- President Taylor Eighmy postponed the start of classes from Aug. 19 to Aug. 24 and extended payment and registration deadlines to give teams time to restore services and confirm systems are secure.
- The incident follows a springwide Canvas outage and highlights a pattern of attackers targeting schools around term start, a timing that increases pressure on IT teams to balance access with containment.