Poland Takes ePUAP Government Services Platform Offline After Detected Cyberattack
If the attacker's goal was disruption rather than data theft, taking ePUAP offline achieves the objective without requiring a successful breach — the precautionary shutdown itself is the effect.
Poland sits on NATO's eastern flank and is a primary logistics corridor for Ukraine aid; repeated pressure on government digital infrastructure, even without confirmed compromise, forces Polish authorities to divert cybersecurity resources and signals that civilian systems remain a viable pressure point during the Abu Dhabi talks period.
Poland's ePUAP shutdown also disrupts the Trusted Profile digital identity system, which Poles use to sign official documents electronically, meaning the outage extends beyond one platform to the country's core e-government authentication layer.
No timeline for restoration has been given, and authorities have not identified the attacker or confirmed whether data was accessed. Poland has absorbed at least three significant cyber incidents since September — the Qbusoft breach, the MyDr breach affecting data on roughly 19 million people, and now ePUAP — a tempo that points to sustained targeting rather than opportunistic intrusion.
Has Poland's ABW (Internal Security Agency) attributed any of the recent wave of incidents — ePUAP, MyDr, Qbusoft — to a common threat actor, or are these assessed as unrelated campaigns?
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