Manila, April 17 -- The eGovPH super app is back online after a temporary downtime caused by upgrades and surge in user activity.

In a statement on Friday, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Undersecretary for e-Government David Almirol Jr. assured there is no cause for concern and that the disruption was not caused by any security incident.

"Our servers were overwhelmed due to the surge in eGov usage, especially following the launch of new features," Almirol said.

In particular, the eGovPH app now has around 40 million users, which contributed to the spike in demand.

In response, the DICT placed the eGovPH system under maintenance to upgrade servers and to restore stability, which lasted several hours acro...