US EditionDefense ministry network disruption causes widespread outages in the Netherlands
- A network outage at the Ministry of Defense in the Netherlands caused flights to be grounded and civil servants to be locked out of computers.
- Dutch defense ministry spokesperson Laurens Bos stated the issue is linked to one of their systems, but the cause remains unknown.
- The National Cybersecurity Center indicated that it is unclear if the outage resulted from a cyber attack.
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In addition to this regional airport, the coast guard and the military police contact center were also affected by this outage, the origin of which is unknown at the moment.
Several government services were hit by a major network failure at the Ministry of Defense on Wednesday. No flights could land or take off at Eindhoven Airport. Coastguard and military police systems, as well as 112 and DigiD, were down. How could this happen?
Eindhoven Airport in the Netherlands suspends all flights due to outage
All flights at Eindhoven Airport, the second-busiest airport in the Netherlands, have been halted due to a network outage, according to officials. Dutch government agencies and emergency services have also been hit by the outage. The issue was discovered on early Wednesday morning and none of the flights which were scheduled for around 7 a.m. were able to land or take off, leaving thousands of people stranded at the airport. “We were hit by an o…
Major computer outage causes problems in multiple places in the country. Read how multiple government and emergency services have been affected, on Telegraaf.nl.
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