Poland suspends ePUAP services after blocking cyber-attack
A cyber-attack targeting Poland's e-government platform ePUAP was detected and blocked. Authorities suspended the platform as a precaution, disrupting users' access to electronic public administration services, and undertook work to restore services. The government said the National IT Centre's infrastructure was secure, and the Internal Security Agency also joined the investigation. Log analysis identified preparatory activity aimed at paralysing administrative functions in the future.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Polish government
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Disruption to electronic public administration services following the suspension of ePUAP
- Cause / method
- A cyber-attack targeting the e-government platform ePUAP
- Location
- Poland
Timeline
- An attack targeting ePUAP was detected and blocked, and work to restore full functionality and the Internal Security Agency's involvement in the investigation were announced.
- Authorities suspended the platform as a precaution and undertook work to restore electronic public administration services.
- The government said log analysis had identified preparatory activity aimed at paralysing administrative functions in the future.
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