Cyberattack takes Belgian tax portal MyMinfin offline before deadline
Original title: Cyberattack disrupts Belgian tax services before filing deadline
FPS Finance says there is no sign data was stolen and will extend the October 31 filing deadline later.
Belgium’s Federal Public Service Finance took MyMinfin offline on Wednesday after a cyberattack, days before an October 31 deadline for some income filings. The agency said affected taxpayers will get more time, with a new deadline still to be announced, and that other government applications stayed fully or partly available. Authorities have not named the attacker or the access method. It is also unclear whether the outage is linked to an earlier precautionary shutdown tied to critical PHP flaws; Belgium’s cybersecurity center had reported no successful exploitation of those flaws against Belgian sites.
Unconfirmed: Authorities have not linked Wednesday’s attack to the earlier PHP alert or identified the intruder.
- FPS Finance is still checking whether any data was exposed.
- The agency said services were taken offline as a precaution while systems were secured.
- An earlier alert this month cited an unspecified international security issue.
- The Brussels Times reported FPS Finance sites were among those affected by the PHP alert.
Impact: Tax portal offline; no confirmed data theft
- 1.Affected taxpayers should wait for FPS Finance to announce a revised filing deadline.
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2 min read at therecord.mediaThe Federal Public Service Finance (FPS Finance), which oversees taxation and other financial administration, said Wednesday that it was investigating the extent of the attack and had temporarily suspended access to MyMinfin, the country's main online platform for managing tax and financial affairs.
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