{"id":381493,"date":"2026-07-21T21:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381493\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:46:10","slug":"dallas-city-police-websites-shut-down-over-possible-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381493\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas city, police websites shut down over possible threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A possible cyber threat led to Dallas&#8217; main city and police department websites <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/article\/dallas-city-website-outage-22352508.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">going offline Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s digital security systems were alerted to a threat from outside its network and automatically took\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dallascityhall.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dallascityhall.com<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dallas.gov\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dallas.gov<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dallaspolice.net\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dallaspolice.net<\/a>\u00a0offline, according to city spokesman Rick Ericson on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe threat did not result in a network intrusion or a loss of city data,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s IT department was notified the sites were down at 9:55 a.m. Monday. An internal notice to city employees went out at 1:11 a.m. Tuesday saying service had been restored.<\/p>\n<p>The outage didn\u2019t affect 911 or 311 phone and virtual services, Ericson said. Separate systems including DallasGo, the city\u2019s online bill-payment platform, and DallasNow, its online permitting portal, were still accessible.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s website provides information about city departments, elected officials, online services and other public resources. Dallaspolice.net is the Dallas Police Department\u2019s website. Dallas.gov redirects to dallascityhall.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A possible cyber threat led to Dallas&#8217; main city and police department websites going offline Monday. The city\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,87998,88952,89139],"class_list":["post-381493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-city-hall","tag-tp-dallas-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}