Systems to restart after malfunction, ‘no hack’

According to the organization, the ongoing and extensive IT problems that the Public Prosecution Service was struggling with on Friday were not caused by ‘a cyber or security incident’. This has been shown by a study that has been conducted in the last 24 hours, according to a statement that the OM has provided to the press on Saturday afternoon.

In a message to its own staff, the OM writes that « increased dyke monitoring » has been set around its own IT network. Why this is necessary, the OM does not say. Friday afternoon the OM decided As a result of « a stubborn disturbance deep in the system, the cause of which could not be explained at that time », the entire organization can be temporarily closed off from the internet as a precaution. As a result, prosecutors and their employees could no longer work and no longer had access to files. In this way, the OM wanted to « carry out digital research in a safe way ».

Taskforce

According to the OM, the cause of the incident is « a disruption in the system. » The OM started on Saturday afternoon to restart all OM environments. That takes about twelve hours. Later in the weekend it must be apparent whether prosecutors can work again in a normal way.

The OM has been struggling with IT problems for a long time. The OM made on its own intranet a year ago Known ‘a special task force’ with headpieces from the organization to resolve the difficulties. That still did not work, it turned out that the past year was regularly. Prosecutors are regularly running because computer programs do not work and they cannot log in from home into the OM environment.

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