ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has issued an explanation regarding the latest situation pertaining to service optimization of the FBR Data Center.
The aforesaid announcement was made by FBR on its Twitter handle.
The board has clarified that all applications having a public interface have been operationalized and running smoothly.
These operationalized projects include FBR Website, Paysis website, eFBR website, IRIS website, AJK IRIS website, IMS web service, PRA web service and Tax Asaan Mobile application.
Earlier, it was reported that hackers have attacked Pakistan’s largest data centre run by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and managed to break the hyper-V software by Microsoft, bringing down all the official websites operated by the tax machinery.
“There has been a national crisis like situation since 2.00 am Saturday morning and we may not be out of the woods by Sunday evening,” a senior official said while explaining the gravity of the situation to media on condition of anonymity.
The FBR’s official version was awaited till the filing of the story. “The FBR’s website is temporarily down for scheduled maintenance,” read the website when it was opened.
However, the authority issued a general press release regarding in-progress service optimisation activities at the FBR House Data Center, Islamabad.
