There were attempts to have several Kenyan government websites including the e-Citizen Portal hacked, ICT CS Eliud Owalo has said.
Reports indicated that the sites were invaded by a group of hackers calling themselves Anonymous Sudan.
Owalo however on Thursday said they were not successful as the attempts were thwarted.
"The attack on the E-Citizen platform entailed an unsuccessful attempt to overload the system through extraordinary requests, with the intention of clogging it. But our technical teams blocked the source IP address where requests were emanating from," Owalo said in a statement adding that is the reason why most services were not accessible.
"For Clarity, both the privacy and security of data were not compromised. The system was not hacked."
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Nairobi Leo has learnt that the system first became slow when users sought services before it became inaccessible.
Owalo said the ICT ministry is racing against time to restore services and ensure that normalcy is back.
"We want to assure Kenyans that the government has put in place remedial measures to address the current challenge plus a long-term risk mitigation framework to ensure sustainable data privacy and data security," he said.
Major government services including those on the e-Citizen portal were not accessible on Thursday with Kenyans taking to social media to complain.
While one was able to log into the e-Citizen portal, no service was displayed on the screen as the system showed an error leaving Kenyans unable to access service.
