One of the largest mobile phone networks Denmark, TDC Net, suffered this Thursday a massive drop which has led much of the country into chaos, preventing citizens from calling 112, forcing the authorities to send patrols to the streets to preserve the safety of citizens. The problem began at noon and continued until late this Thursday.
According to Danish media reports, the systems outage has also affected other telecommunications providers dependent on TDC Net, such as Telmore and YouSee. Additionally, hospitals have been forced to reduce non-critical medical care, while several lines of public transport (trains and buses) have come to suffer signaling problemssince in towns like Banedanmark they are digitalized. Until 31 trains have been stopped on platforms due to the failure of the signals and their operation could not be restored until after 8:00 p.m.
This has been reported by some Danish media, where the network provider, TDC Net, has specified that the problems could have been caused by a update of your systems that has been carried out in the last 24 hours and that they had no reason to believe that you were having an attack of hackers. In addition, it has urged customers who needed to call 112 to remove the SIM card before making the call, something that has been shared nationwide from Police stations.
In other locations such as Aarhus, there have been additional visits to vulnerable citizens who live alone in their homes or in residences as an emergency measure. For its part, the municipality of Køge has also taken special measures in the area of ​​​​the elderly and has planned visits.
On the other hand, the Cyber ​​Security Center, Denmark’s national cybersecurity authority and a branch of the Danish Defense Intelligence Service They have not been able to confirm if all the incidents were related with the fall and have assured that many of them had already been able to recover as of 4:00 p.m.
The ruling comes at a time of great tension in Europe after the alleged sabotage of two telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea. The European Union It already warned a few days ago that a wave of sabotage and espionage linked to Russia is being experienced, including acts of hybrid warfare such as fires in companies related to defense, cuts of underwater telecommunications cables and attempted attacks on airports.