Thursday , November 21 2024

NID services disrupted, What EC say

The National Identity card (NID) server has been down since Tuesday morning. The server is down until noon tomorrow due to ongoing maintenance work.


Screen shot taken at 12.54 PM (19 September)

Muhammad Ashraf Hossain, system manager of NID division of the commission told this to media. A notice says that the server is undergoing maintenance. As a result, all services related to NID will be closed from today morning till 2 pm tomorrow, Wednesday. The authorities expressed sincere regret for the temporary inconvenience.

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Earlier, after shutting down the NID server for about 38 hours from 12:00 PM on August 14 to prevent cyber attacks, the EC started it around 2:00 PM on August 16. Today (19 September) there was a pre-declared possible cyber attack on Bangladeshi infra by a hacker group.

EC is ensuring more security of NID servers after recent revelations of data breach of citizen’s data in Registrar of Births and Deaths office. EC has also formed its own CIRT team for this.

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