Cyber disruption in the Dutch Ministry of Defense/flights were grounded
reported by Mehr News Agency, according to ABC News, following the outage of one of the communication networks in the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands, many government systems connected to this ministry faced disruption.
The Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands has confirmed that the network outage is probably related to one of the ministry’s systems, but its extent and cause are still unknown.
Laurence Bass, the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands, said: “We are faced with the outage of one of the networks of the Ministry of Defense, and this network is the same network that other government departments are also connected to and use.” they do The National Cyber Security Center of the Netherlands says that it is not yet clear whether a cyber attack is at work.
According to an official, passengers at Eindhoven airport have been stuck at the airport since early this morning and flights of Ryanair and Transavia airlines have been canceled. According to him, there is no air traffic and there is no information about its cause.
This airport operates as a military airport under the management of the Dutch Ministry of Defense. The warning and communication systems of emergency service workers have also been affected. The Dutch Coast Guard also announced that it is not possible to contact them by phone or radio. Instead of using wireless, police forces resort to mobile phones and communicate with each other or the center through text messages.
KPN telecommunication company has also faced a widespread disruption and outage of the mobile phone service network, but it has announced that the connection between this outage and the disruption in the Dutch Ministry of Defense is not yet clear. According to the announcement of the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands, it is not known how long this network outage will last.
