The minister in charge of the census appears to be the latest victim of technical woes plaguing the government, after his personal website was hacked on Wednesday afternoon.

On Michael McCormack's website, an unremarkable description of his electorate of Riverina was followed by the words: "gay sex".

The words linked to another site, which was not accessed by Fairfax Media. Shortly after the text was discovered at around 4.15pm, the site was swiftly pulled down for maintenance. It is not known how long the link had been on the website.

Mr McCormack's office has been contacted for comment.