The Dutch ministry of defence confirmed they had experienced a network outage, resulting in major IT failures across the country.
Flights have been grounded and police officers were forced to communicate by text while on duty as a network outage at the Dutch ministry of defence caused major IT failures across the country. The extent and cause of the problems are not yet known, but a spokesperson for the Dutch defence ministry confirmed the issue can be traced back to one of their networks that is also used by other parts of the Dutch government.
Some flights were diverted to Germany's Weeze Airport, about 90km from Eindhoven, as well as Schiphol and Belgium's Brussels Airport - both around 125km away. The airport also serves as a military airport operated by the Dutch defence ministry. The country's largest airport, Amsterdam's Schiphol, has not reported any problems. The alarm and the communications systems for emergency workers were also affected.
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