One of the largest mobile networks in Denmark experienced extensive outages on Thursday, which to people made it impossible to contact emergency services and forced at least one hospital limit the provision of health care to essential cases. It was disturbed for signaling problems aj bus and train transport, however, it is not clear whether these two incidents are somehow related, writes TASR according to the report of the AP agency.
Network provider, the Danish telecommunications company TDC Net reported Thursday afternoon that the problems were likely caused by updating the systemwhich occurred in the last 24 hours. She added that she has no reason to believe that they could be behind the outages cyber attacks. The company announced in the evening that it had temporarily fixed the system so that its customers could make calls, albeit with reduced sound quality.
Customers who needed to call on emergency line 112at the same time she urged that before such a call removed the SIM card from the phone. She later stated that the network had already returned to normal operation and that he will investigate the cause of the malfunction.
In addition, Danish media reported that there were delays in some parts of the country due to signaling problems train and bus connectionsthere was chaos at the stations and many passengers were stuck in the trains for a long time. The Danish Center for Cyber Security nor the Secret Service have not yet been able to determine whether the mentioned two incidents are related.
