The government has assured that no government or civilian data was compromised following the unexpected collapse of the Lanka Government Cloud (LGC) in mid-October this year. 

Issuing a statement, the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) said the assurance was given by Deputy Minister of Digital Economy, Eranga Weeraratne, in Parliament recently in response to a question raised by Opposition MP Ravi Karunanayake. 

According to the statement, Deputy Minister Eranga Weeraratne had clarified that a technical issue brought on by a storage drive exceeding 100% utilization and initiating an automatic shutdown protocol was the cause of the incident, rather than a cyberattack.

“This was a controlled shutdown rather than a systemwide failure. After thorough validation to guarantee all data remained secure, services were restored by Saturday night,” the Deputy Minister informed Parliament. (Newswire)

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The affected systems include the Birth, Marriage and Death (BMD) Certificate System of the Registrar General’s Department, the e-Revenue License System (eRL 2.0) of the Provincial Departments of Motor Traffic (except the Western Province), the Police Clearance System, the Country of Origin Certificate Issuance System of the Department of Commerce, and the Pension System of the Department of Pensions.

Websites and services of the Department of Meteorology, Registrar of Companies, and the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Board have also been impacted.

ICTA said engineers and the service provider are working to restore the affected cloud services as soon as possible. In the meantime, the Registrar General’s Department has advised the public that certificate copies can be obtained manually from the relevant Divisional Secretariat.

While restoration of LGC services remains a high priority, ICTA said operational constraints are expected to ease with the ongoing expansion phase of the LGC that began in October 2025.

The agency apologized for the inconvenience caused to the public and institutions using LGC-hosted systems and assured that efforts are underway to restore services to full capacity. (Newswire)

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