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Norwegian government digital infrastructure experienced a significant DDoS attack targeting ID-porten, disrupting access to critical public services including authentication, e-delivery, and citizen portals for over 12 hours. This incident exposed the vulnerability of centralized identity and service delivery infrastructure, with cascading failures across nine interconnected government digital solutions affecting millions of citizen and business transactions. IT leaders must recognize this as a critical business continuity and national resilience issue, requiring immediate review of DDoS mitigation strategies, infrastructure redundancy, and dependency mapping across government service ecosystems.