Gov­ern­ment is mon­i­tor­ing a se­ries of cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty in­ci­dents that have af­fect­ed sev­er­al min­istries and State agency web­sites, with Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence Do­minic Smith as­sur­ing that in­ves­ti­ga­tions are un­der­way to de­ter­mine the ex­tent of the breach­es.

The is­sue was first pub­licly high­light­ed by Trinidad and To­ba­go IT con­sul­tant Shiv­am Teelucks­ingh, who has been doc­u­ment­ing a re­cent in­crease in com­pro­mised web­sites across the coun­try and wider Caribbean.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Smith said au­thor­i­ties are aware of the re­cent ser­vice dis­rup­tions but stressed that pre­lim­i­nary find­ings sug­gest they were not so­phis­ti­cat­ed, tar­get­ed cy­ber­at­tacks.