The ePUAP system was taken offline as a precaution after a cyberattack, which Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski announced on Tuesday evening. The Ministry of Digital Affairs has not said when the platform will be fully operational again.
Deputy Prime Minister’s Statement
Gawkowski posted on X on Tuesday, November 10, at around 9:00 p.m. He wrote that the cyberattack had been detected and stopped, and that the teams responsible for the system’s security had taken immediate action that kept it stable. He added that technical work is under way to restore full functionality.
The minister assured that the infrastructure of the Central IT Centre (COI) is secure. In line with procedures, the Internal Security Agency (ABW) has been brought in to investigate the incident. The ministry is to keep the public informed of the findings as they come in. Earlier, we reported on the first statement on the attack on ePUAP.
Precautionary Shutdown, Not a Failure
After 11:00 p.m., Marek Gieorgica, director of the communications office at the Ministry of Digital Affairs, told PAP that the attack had not breached the system or disrupted its operation. As he said, ePUAP “was taken offline by us as a precaution for security reasons” to ensure that its continued operation will be fully secure.
Gieorgica added that it is difficult to say when the system will regain full functionality. “We hope it will be as soon as possible,” he said.
What Is ePUAP
The Electronic Platform of Public Administration Services (ePUAP) is a nationwide system through which citizens and businesses communicate with government offices: they submit applications, requests and documents, and sign letters with a Trusted Profile (Profil Zaufany). According to a notice visible on the epuap.gov.pl website on Tuesday evening, mailboxes were unavailable to both citizens and offices.
Statements from the minister and the ministry did not specify what kind of attack it was, whether data was leaked, or whether the incident affected the Trusted Profile and mObywatel. The ePUAP outage is another cyber incident in recent days – among other things, we wrote about the call for companies to switch off vulnerable industrial refrigerators.
