Luxembourg probes reported attack on Huawei tech that caused nationwide telecoms outage

Luxembourg’s government announced on Thursday it was formally investigating a nationwide telecommunications outage caused last week by a cyberattack reportedly targeting Huawei equipment inside its national telecoms infrastructure.

The outage on July 23 left the country’s 4G and 5G mobile networks unavailable for more than three hours. Officials are concerned that large parts of the population were unable to call the emergency services as the fallback 2G system became overloaded. Internet access and electronic banking services were also inaccessible.

According to government statements issued to the country’s parliament, the attack was intentionally disruptive rather than an attempt to compromise the telecoms network that accidentally led to a system failure.

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