Belgian government websites hit by a cyber-attack on Sunday are accessible once again. This is the second such attack targeting Belgian government websites in a matter of days. No confidential information was reportedly stolen.
The websites of the prime minister, the royal family and the senate were all inaccessible yesterday. The finance ministry, which was also hacked, posted on X that it had been the subject of a "hacker attack".
Instead of the home page, a message in English appeared on the websites, referring to Belgian support for Ukraine and the promise to deliver F-16 fighter jets by 2025. Today, that message has disappeared from the websites and it seems they are functioning normally once again.
This was the second cyber-attack in a week targeting Belgian government sites. A DDOS attack also took place last Thursday.
Miguel De Bruycker of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) assumes the same attackers were involved twice, but yesterday assured that the damage is limited. "The sites are temporarily more difficult to access, which is annoying, but no information has been stolen. It's mainly reputational damage," said a spokesman last night.