Updated 5.45pm

Most of the government’s online services were offline on Tuesday morning after the state’s IT systems developed “technical issues”. 

In a post on Facebook published at 9.19pm, the Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA), which oversees the government’s IT platforms, said its systems were "experiencing technical issues".

Most services were impacted, MITA said.

 

Times of Malta is informed that government email servers were affected by the problems and that agencies that run on MITA’s systems, such as Identity Malta, were left unable to operate. 

It took more than eight hours to fully fix problems, with MITA announcing a return to normality at 5.31pm.

Parliamentary secretary Clayton Bartolo congratulated MITA "for the sterling job you've done to restore the situation back to normal in no time".

Attempts to reach Bartolo's office for comment about the technical issues were unsuccessful. 

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