DEQ says cyberattack made them not receive emails April 9-11. Here’s what to know

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says it didn’t receive any emails sent to them from April 9 through April 11 due to a cyberattack last week.

DEQ officials said that if anyone had sent an email to them during that time, they should go into their “sent” folder and “re-send the same email to the same email address.”

A number of DEQ projects and proposals have an active public comment period that may have been affected by the outage. Due to this, the below public comment periods were extended to April 25:

• Sundown Sanitary District water quality permit, submit comments to: trinh.hansen@deq.oregon.gov
• Terrebonne Sanitary District’s proposed categorical exclusion, submit comments to: cristina.jones@deq.oregon.gov
• The public hearing for the City of Molalla’s water quality draft permit will be rescheduled. The hearing date and the preceding public comment period will be announced through GovDelivery as soon as possible.

Some Portland-area DEQ locations opened up again on Tuesday morning after the cyberattack shuttered its network operations, including vehicle inspection stations. DEQ officials said they worked through the weekend to address the issue.

DEQ officials said only comments sent by email during the timeframe of April 9-April 11 need to be resubmitted. Comments sent via Your DEQ Online were received by DEQ and do not need to be resubmitted.