Government websites still down – DICT

The Department of Information and Communications (DICT) said government websites were still down on Wednesday and the agency is unsure if the system could be fixed within the day.

“The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), with the help of the IBM (International Business Machines) technical team, has been working all night to address the issue on our data center infrastructure, which is the reason why several government websites are currently down and inaccessible,” the department said in a tweet.

DICT UPDATE/PUBLIC ADVISORY: pic.twitter.com/ktasYxc48C

— Department of ICT PH (@DICTgovph) July 4, 2018

DICT noted that as of July 4, the malfunctioning server has been fixed but two more disks need to be replaced in its storage subsystem.

“We will replace the first disk this morning and the other one tonight. We are careful in restoring each website so that no data will be lost,” it said.

The Department also stressed that the websites were not hacked after it went down Tuesday.
“The DICT would like to apologize to the public for this unfortunate incident and we are taking all steps [so] that it will not happen again,” it said.   /vvp