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Due to two potential security vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language widely used by websites around the world, Holland Gold temporarily took its website and app offline as a precaution. The identified vulnerabilities have now been addressed, and our website and app are accessible again. Your data remained secure.
Around 70% of all websites use PHP, a programming language that enables websites to function. You can think of PHP as part of the engine that powers a website. It recently emerged that PHP contained two potential security vulnerabilities that could have been exploited by malicious actors.
As a precaution, government websites in the Netherlands and Finland were taken offline. Services including DigiD and MijnOverheid were also temporarily unavailable as a result, NOS reported this afternoon.
Yes. The identified PHP vulnerabilities have been addressed with a security update. The PHP developers released the update today shortly before 16:00. Once our technical team had carefully implemented and verified the update within our systems, the website and app were brought back online.
Yes. Your data remained secure. Holland Gold took the website offline in time as a precaution, preventing the PHP vulnerabilities from being exploited through our website. This followed additional security measures that had already been implemented earlier in the day.
