ISLAMABAD – The server of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) stoppedworking after reportedly being hit by a cyberattack, local media saidFriday.
The main website of Pakistan’s premium tax collection body turned downwhile efforts were underway to fix the problem.
Reports said taxpayers also faced troubles in filing their taxes in wake ofdisruption in online services. Meanwhile, the federal agency has madeavailable another link for the visitors.
The main website was showing an ‘invalid’ error on the search engine. Thisis not the first time that the website of the Federal Board of Revenue hascrashed. Earlier on September 30, the tax collection software of FBR wascrashed as taxpayers tried to file tax returns on the last day.
Recently, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin told the National Assembly that onaverage the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) portals were subjected to 71,000cyber-attacks every month.
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Tarin revealed that this volume increased sharply as tools and methodsavailable with the hackers are more powerful.
Meanwhile, the officials had been authorized to procure cyber andinformation security-related hardware, software to avoid future attacks.
