DENVER—Colorado state government websites were down for about 2 1/2 hours Wednesday after state agencies temporarily lost their connection to the Internet.
The problem originated in the state’s data center and technology managers are trying to figure out what went wrong.
The chief of staff for the Governor’s Office of Information Technology, Dara Hessee (Hes-EE’) says she’s “100 percent” confident the failure wasn’t caused by a hacker because monitoring equipment would have indicated if someone had accessed the site externally.
The outage hampered law enforcement’s ability to conduct on-the-spot background checks during traffic stops.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Lance Clem said police could still radio a background request to their dispatch centers, which then could check a national database to find information on backgrounds as well as any open arrest warrants.
