The Gov.gg website – along with several other States’ sites – were taken offline for several hours after international warnings about a security flaw that could allow hackers to interfere with websites without a password.
The affected sites included gov.gg, the Revenue Service portal, institute.gov.gg, Beau Sejour and scuba, the States’ booking platform.
The security flaw affects PHP, a programming language used to run a large proportion of the world’s websites.
A States’ spokesperson said the sites were taken down as a “precaution” but there was “no evidence that any of our websites have been affected”.
“We are acting early because it is the safest way to protect the public and our systems while the fix is applied and tested,” they added.
A fix was released on Wednesday by the PHP Foundation, which oversees the language, but European cybersecurity agencies advised organisations unable to apply it immediately to take affected websites offline in the meantime.
The websites are understood to have been back online by Wednesday evening.
“We are sorry for any inconvenience and thank everyone for their patience,” they added.
