Orange County is encouraging employees to change the passwords to their personal accounts as the county is dealing with fallout from last week’s hack.

“Out of an abundance of caution, the county advised its employees to change passwords to personal financial accounts if they accessed those accounts through the county network within the past six months,” officials said in a release Friday.

“The county has received no reports of unauthorized access to any employee’s personal accounts but is urging employees to change passwords to ensure their accounts are protected.”

The county shut down the computer network last Monday after a virus was discovered. It impacted services for several days as operations were slowly brought back online.

“This incident is continuing to be investigated by federal law enforcement authorities and cyber-security professionals. At this time the county has no evidence indicating and no reason to believe computers and systems at county facilities that are accessible by the public were compromised.”

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