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Can You Still Buy Things in Denmark if Payment Service Nets Is Down?

Summary by The Local - Dk
Payment provider Nets suffered an outage over the weekend which caused card payments across the country to be declined. What can you do if it happens again and you need to pay for something?

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Criticism has poured down on the payment company Nets since the massive outage hit on Saturday.

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A nationwide outage at payment company Nets on Saturday evening was not "triggered by external malicious influence", Nets wrote in a press release on Sunday at noon. Nets added that ...

·Aarhus, Denmark
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Problems at all levels Carsten Schürmann, a professor at the IT University of Copenhagen and who works with critical infrastructure, calls Saturday's attack "a big problem". He believes that it shows how vulnerable the Danish infrastructure is and how dependent we have gradually become on technology. "If there is a geopolitical conflict, you can exploit this kind of dependence on digitalization," he tells TV 2. Nets itself says that it is not an…

Nets rules out external attackSince Saturday evening, there have been major problems with card payments in Denmark and the Nordic region. There has been speculation about the cause of the outage, which caused great inconvenience to many Danes.

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tv2kosmopol.dk broke the news in on Sunday, July 20, 2025.
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