Kenya
KEN
DDoS attack causes intermittent outage of Kenya eCitizen government services
A distributed denial-of-service attack beginning around July 23 overloaded Kenya's eCitizen government-services portal, making online public services intermittently unavailable for three days. The Kenyan government subsequently reported restored service and said its defenses prevented compromise of platform data; this did not negate the documented service disruption.
79
Estimated severity
79 / 100
91
Source reliability
91 / 100
Approximate Date
2023-07-23
Targeted Company
DIRECTORATE OF E-CITIZEN SERVICES
Targeted Company Supply Chain Impact
Distribution & Fulfillment
Procurement & Sourcing
Production & Manufacturing
Sales (Retail & Ecommerce)
Warehousing
Service Delivery
Unrecognized Impact
Supply Chain Relations
No information
Geographic Impact
Country Targeted Company
Other Affected Countries
No other affected countries reported
Target country
Kenya
Affected countries
Kenya
Impacted regions
No information
Operational Impact
Duration
3 days
Financial impact (USD M)
No information
Impact types
Service degradationService unavailability
Affected sectors
Government & Public Administration
Affected departments
Information Technology
Attack Profile
Attack types
Distributed denial of service
Attributed threat actors
ANONYMOUS SUDAN
Sources
Incident Sources
parliament.go.kehttps://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2023-08/Hansard%20Report%20-%20Wednesday%2C%209th%20August%202023%20%28P%29.pdfcitizen.digitalhttps://citizen.digital/article/govt-says-e-citizen-services-back-online-after-cyber-attack-scare-n324390treasury.go.kehttps://treasury.go.ke/e-citizenusajili.go.kehttps://www.usajili.go.ke/ecitizen