Yes, eCitizen was hacked, ICT CS Owalo says

He also added that the government was prepared for an attack of this degree and had put in place measures to address it and continue to improve its cyber security.

"We cannot stop digitizing our services because of hackers. What we did because we had foreseen this, is to establish and operationalize the office of the data commissioner and anchored it on law to ensure they execute the mandate of data privacy on one hand and data security on the other," he said.

"We are not just coming up with instant remedial solutions to address the current attack but we are ensuring that around this digitalization space, we will build an elaborate risk mitigation framework for purposes of sustainable digitalization," he added.

The issue with the eCitizen platform began a few days ago when Kenyans tried to access various government services but were unable to.

Some are still experiencing a challenge in logging into the system while others have the issue settled on their end.