Flights grounded and folks locked out of banking programs in main tech outage
A major global Microsoft outage has left thousands of people locked out of their banks, while planes have also been grounded.
Users are reporting seeing the Blue Screen of Death error messages across banking institutions, supermarkets and media companies.
All American Airlines flights have been grounded due to the outage, too – while Australia’s largest airline, Qantas, also saw flights grounded.
Mumbai Airport is also experiencing tech issues with check-in desks reportedly down for IndiGo, Akasa and SpiceJet flights. Melbourne Airport also confirmed it is also impacted by the outage.
American Airlines, United and Delta have asked the Federal Aviation Administration for global ground stop on all flights, according to an alert from the organisation.
ABC News reported that the FAA is telling air traffic controllers to tell pilots already in the air that airlines are experiencing communication issues.
However, flights in the air will stay in the air, but no American, United or Delta flights will take off.
Hospitals have also been affected, and Sky News live has seen operations halted. Police forces in Australia have reported outages, too.
Cybersecurity software firm Crowdstrike has said the problem comes from an issue with “content deployment”.
The National Cyber Security Coordinator in Australia said that it doesn’t look like a cyber security threat, “and outage relates to a technical issue with a third-party software platform employed by affected companies.”
Tamara Sharf, a doctor in the US, has claimed on X that the outage has caused havoc in hospitals. She said the management systems are down in several facilities.
She wrote: “Rumor has it EMR is down at major hospitals in NY & CA. We are locked out of Cerner here and I heard from a friend in LA that Epic is down at their hospital. 911 outage here too apparently. Is it really that widespread? What are folks experiencing?”
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