Vanuatu officials turn to phone books and typewriters, one month after cyber attack

One month on from a cyber attack, officials in Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila are still without some email and web services. Photograph: @ Didier Marti/Getty Images

One month after a cyber-attack brought down government servers and websites in Vanuatu, frustrated officials were still using private Gmail accounts, personal laptops, pen and paper, and typewriters to run the government of the prime minister, Ishmael Kalsakau, who came into office just a few days after the crash.

The malware attack on state networks has caused delays in communication and coordination in the Pacific island nation of 314,000 people and 80 islands.