Washington: On Monday, hundreds of government websites in the United States became inaccessible.
According to media reports, the affected sites included the website of the humanitarian organization USAID, which was being taken offline by the administration of former President Donald Trump.
Reports indicate that out of approximately 1,400 federal websites listed by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), more than 350 were unavailable as of Monday afternoon.
Among the websites that went offline were those associated with the Department of Defense, Commerce, Energy, Transportation, Labor, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and even the Supreme Court.
However, it remains unclear how long these websites had been down or whether they were temporarily taken offline or removed based on directives from the Trump administration.