For a time Thursday morning, a hardware issue stopped all network traffic to state applications including Bureau of Motor Vehicle (BMV) kiosks.
The Indiana Office of Technology (IOT) noted the issue on its homepage and said in an email the problem “prevented internal and external network traffic from reaching state agency applications.”
This wasn’t an application or security issue, Graig Lubsen, IOT director of communications and external affairs, said in the email, but it “affected a core piece of the state network’s internal core structure.”
Emailed alerts were sent in the morning and again at about midday as the issue was being resolved.
A note on IOT’s website indicates “PeopleSoft access is restricted so that over-night processes can now run.”
Television station WRTV reported state agencies including BMV, the Department of Revenue and the Family and Social Services Administration “were temporarily locked out of their computer systems.”
