A recent report from The Sunday Times claims that all Sri Lanka government emails (gov.lk domain) have lost data owing to a ransomware attack. By November 2017, ICTA launched the 2nd phase of LGN with the aim of connecting 3500 government buildings around the country via Sri Lanka Telecom’s network (Image credits: ICTA) Now, with the government’s own gov.lk email systems compromised and lacking data recovery processes in place, the future of e-government services in Sri Lanka leaves much to be desired.