Thirty-two UK government services are offline and four are partially unavailable while officials address a critical security flaw in the programming language PHP, tech minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra told the House of Lords today.
“The information I have is that 32 Government services are unavailable and four are partially unavailable,” Lady Lloyd said. She told peers this “has largely resulted from precautionary measures taken to protect systems while security updates and mitigations are applied”.
Downing Street said no large public-facing critical services had been affected, but some “limited” government websites had gone dark while the issues were resolved. A No 10 spokeswoman said it was not “standard practice” to provide a list of the services affected.
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