Dutch emergency services restored after major telecoms outage

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A nationwide telecommunications outage in the Netherlands knocked police and eme...

FILE PHOTO: KPN logo is seen at its headquarters in Rotterdam, Netherlands, January 30, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo

The cause of the outage remained unclear, but the company said it did not appear to be the result of a security breach.Anna Posthumus, a spokeswoman at the National Coordinator for Security and Counter-Terrorism, said it is “too early to say” whether there may have been a cyber attack. It originated on KPN’s network, but also affected other telecommunications providers using its infrastructure backbone.

People with emergencies had been instructed on Twitter to go directly to hospitals, fire departments or local police stations.

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