A government website was hit by what appeared to be a cyber-attack Tuesday, causing the site to go down temporarily.
A pro-Russia hacker group called Killnet announced on social media Tuesday evening that it had conducted a cyber-attack on the government's e-Gov site, according to Nobuo Miwa, president of Tokyo-based cybersecurity firm S&J Corp.
According to the digital agency, the e-Gov website went down at around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. The e-Gov service, which enables people to complete administrative procedures online, had been mostly restored by the end of the day.
