- Flights grounded amid major IT outages across the Netherlands
- Operations at Eindhoven Airport were impacted
- The extent and the cause of the problems are not yet known
Flights grounded amid major IT outages across the Netherlands
Operations at Eindhoven Airport, which also serves as a military installation, were impacted after major IT outages grounded flights on Wednesday.
Major IT failures reported across the Netherlands on Wednesday, which have resulted in grounded flights, civil servants being locked out of their computers, and police officers resorting to texting one another, have been blamed on a network outage at the country’s Ministry of Defense.
The extent and the cause of the problems are not yet known, but a spokesperson for the Dutch defense ministry confirmed the issue can be traced back to one of their systems.
“We are experiencing an outage in one of our networks at the defense department and it is a network that is also used by other parts of the Dutch government,” Laurens Bos told The Associated Press.