44 Incidents - December
Imagine what the impact could be for mentioned organizations, reputation, loss of turnover, customers leaving, legal, financial aspects, employees can't do their work etc. etc.
- Retail chain Sprinter Sports hit by cyber attack
- Very large fire at food company Tyson Foods in Oosterwolde
- Depositing paper money sometimes fails due to failures, Geldmaat promises improvement
- Major ICT malfunction at Het Hogeland municipality, also no telephone traffic possible
- Malfunction at Rabobank, all day problems with online payments and PIN payments
- Hazardous substance released at company in Moerdijk, two people unwell
- Malfunctions at Geldmaat: retailers cannot always deposit money in important turnover month
- Ben & Jerry's Hellendoorn staff strike for 24 hours, dissatisfied with parent company Unilever's failure to reach a new collective labour agreement
- Bio-digester Dairy Campus shut down due to amphetamine discovery: alternative needed for heating De Zuidlanden neighbourhood in Leeuwarden
- Over 100 activists Extinction Rebellion block access roads to Rotterdam port
- Malfunction in eighteen bridges in Groningen province after disconnecting control system
- Break-in at beer brewery: tens of thousands of euros worth of items stolen but 'fortunately not much broken'
- System failure at sluice gates near Grave, 21 vessels wait for hours
- Man dies in industrial accident bakery products company in Wijnjewoude: 'Victim was working on faulty forklift'
- Open University fined 24,500 euros for 51 unjustified master's degrees, reputation of Dutch higher education system damaged
- Penalty payment for Transavia over night landings at Rotterdam airport
- Chemours must again fear fine for excessive emissions of harmful substance
- Woman dies after industrial accident at Tata
- Rabobank fined 12 million euros for 'irresponsible mortgages'
- Ice cream factory completely destroyed by major fire, metres-high flames from roof
- Large poultry farmer in Someren shut down after years of legal battle
- Customers' parking app EasyPark data leaked after cyber attack
- Drama at flooring company Kampen: owner dies in stabbing attack, business partner arrested
- Director and senior staff of ICT company West-Friesian municipalities suspended after integrity investigation
- KLM leaked customer data: private data easy to collect
- ASN must compensate fraud victim for half damage due to cut-through instruction
- EBS must have bus transport in order before 1 January, cancellations biggest problem
- Man falls under goods lift in butcher's shop and is seriously injured
- Livestock feed company ForFarmers has been emitting nitrogen for four years without a permit
- Very large network failure at Ikazia Hospital: appointments cancelled all day
- Packaging industry awaits fine if it fails to meet bottle collection standard
- More breakdowns, more complaints: many railway signals are red
- Erasmus MC staff wrongly accessed files of murdered Romy
- Parcel delivered by DHL Express leaks toxic substance, emergency services deployed en masse to the building
- Industrial accident with hazardous substance: one injured person
- Brabant municipalities do not have personal data security in place
- Dozens of PostNL employees out in the cold for hours after finding possible explosive device
- Four companies destroyed by fire Driebergen: 'We received an email at 5.30pm saying it was bad'
- Fire at logistics service provider DSV Multi-Channel Fulfilment, batteries caught fire, ambulance and hazardous materials advisor present
- Regulator intervenes at energy supplier HIM (*)
- Carrot company VECO found to be involved in cartel: 1.2 million euros fine (*)
- NVWA closes all Van Keulen bakeries due to serious hygiene problems (*)
- Cables do not meet quality requirements: fibre optic installation Pekela faces delay (*)
- Seventeen Qbuzz buses could not complete journeys due to cold (*)
(*) see for more Headlines