Election Commission’s National Identification server was restored on Wednesday afternoon after remaining down for more than 24 hours since zero hour on August 15.

The server was restored at about 2:00pm on Wednesday.

Election Commission’s NID wing’s director general AKM Humayun Kabir, while addressing a press briefing on Wednesday, said that they kept the server down since zero hour on August 15 following threats of cyber-attacks from some religious and ideologically motivated underground hacker groups.

They took the step ‘in a response to a declaration made by some religious and ideologically motivated underground hacker groups on July 31 to launch, as they mentioned, a storm of cyber-attacks against Bangladesh cyberspace on August 15.’

Bangladesh government’s Computer Incident Response Team earlier this month issued warning stating that critical information infrastructures, banks and financial institutions, health care and all sorts of government and private organisations were in risk of possible cyber-attacks.

The warning signed by BGD e-GOV CIRT project director Mohammad Saiful Alam Khan also read that all organisations were advised to be aware of small to medium-scale cyber-attacks and take required precautions to protect their infrastructures.