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ePUAP Cyberattack: Poland Takes Government Portal Offline

Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs has given no date for restoring ePUAP after a cyberattack. The state portal was taken offline as a precaution while the ABW investigates.

Government building in Warsaw with a digital padlock graphic symbolizing a cyberattack on the ePUAP public services portal.
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Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs cannot say when the ePUAP public services platform will be fully operational again after a cyberattack. The system was disconnected as a precaution, and the restoration work is being led by the Central Informatics Centre (COI).

Marek Gieorgica, director of the ministry's communications office, said full restoration will come only once the COI team has finished its work, so that the platform is no longer at risk. "At present it is not possible to declare a specific date when ePUAP will return to full functionality," he said in a ministry statement. The ministry stressed that the priority is the security of the system and restoring access as quickly as possible.

What the government has said

Deputy Prime Minister and Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski announced the attack on Tuesday evening on X. He said security teams took immediate action to keep the system stable and that technical work to rebuild the platform is under way. Gawkowski added that the COI's infrastructure is safe. The Internal Security Agency (ABW) has joined the effort to establish exactly what happened.

The statements do not say who is behind the attack, how it was carried out or what data, if any, was affected.

Why it matters

ePUAP, the Electronic Platform of Public Administration Services, is Poland's nationwide system for online contact between citizens and public bodies. People use it to send applications, requests and documents to offices, and to sign letters with a Trusted Profile (Profil Zaufany). An extended outage can therefore disrupt everyday dealings with the administration.

For now, the ministry's message is that the platform will return only after the COI is satisfied it is safe, with no timetable given.

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