IT problems in Södertälje – the municipality refers people to the phone

Södertälje municipality, Scania and Astra Zeneca were among those affected when Microsoft caused a major IT disruption. The municipality’s switchboard told SVT that it has “pretty major problems,” and on its website the municipality wrote: “If you need to contact us, the phone is the safest way.” A municipality is the local authority responsible for, among other things, schools, elder care and supervision.

According to BBC, Microsoft users in more than 70 countries have reported problems since Thursday. More than 400 million users of Microsoft 365 services such as Outlook, Teams and Copilot may be affected. The municipality’s head of security later said that the IT disruption and the problems with the phone switchboard were two separate incidents. SVT Nyheter Södertälje