State Department suffers outage of unclassified email
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect that State’s unclassified email service was restored.
The State Department experienced an outage of unclassified email Friday morning, an official told FedScoop.
The spokesperson said the outage was “systemwide,” reaching State networks across the globe. The outage began early Friday morning, and staff are continuing to work to bring service back online as soon as possible.
“Other communications systems are available and being used,” the spokesperson said.
The State Department in 2014 shut down its unclassified email and parts of its public website in an effort to secure its systems against a breach.
Around 3 p.m. Friday afternoon, the department’s Information Resource Management Office tweeted that service had been restored and that it was “not due to external action or interference.”
We can confirm that full services for @StateDept unclassified email have been restored-Outage was not due to external action or interference
— Tech@State (@StateDept_IRM) August 18, 2017
