IT failure in NATO country’s military causes nationwide outage

The Dutch authorities were unable to say whether a cyberattack could be to blame

A network failure at the Dutch Defense Ministry has caused cascading computer problems across the Netherlands, shutting down Eindhoven Airport and even disrupting police communications.

The unspecified problem was first detected on Tuesday evening on a military network. The Dutch National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) could not say whether the outage was caused by a cyberattack.