Government's ICT services were fully restored early this morning after an outage which developed yesterday afternoon.

MITA, the government's IT agency, said the outage was reported at 4.55pm. It immediately invoked its established procedures and by 6.35pm services began to be gradually restored.

In coordination with Mater Dei Hospital, the police and other government representatives, urgent maintenance and testing of services started at 9.30pm and most critical services were stabilised by 11.58. The remaining services were restored by 2.25am today.

"This incident was not security-related and at no point was data at risk," Mita said. 

Computer services at a number of government institutions are currently unavailable due to a technical fault.

Sources at Mater Dei hospital told the Times of Malta the outage was preventing the processing of X-rays and blood tests, as well as the registration of patients in the Emergency department.

In a statement, the government IT agency (MITA) said the problem was identified at 4.55pm. MITA technical personnel immediately triggered its established diagnosis procedures.

A number of services are being gradually restored. From preliminary analysis, there are no indications that the incident is security related.
MITA apologised for any inconvenience and said it would issue further communications in due course.