­Vodafone UK was hit by a network outage after people broke into an exchange centre. This exchange centre is in Basingstoke, a town in the South of the country.

According to the company, a number of customers would have been affected by the outage without saying how serious the issue was.Due to the nature of the outage, it is likely that the data centre housed HLR platforms which manage the account permissions for customers on the network.

According toVodafone, engineers are working to fix the problem. They had a break in last night at one of their technical facilities which resulted in damage done to some of their equipment. They are working quickly to restore these and will be back to normal as soon as they can.

The company confirmed that the break-in had not compromised personal information about its customers.