[News] Mass IT Outage

[nevergoagain]

This breaking story could get interesting. Sky News off air, trains and airlines affected in Europe. Microsoft trying to mitigate.

 

[Soton Seagull]

Yet annoyingly I've been able to login to work from home.

Where's the benefit to normal folk?!

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Yet annoyingly I've been able to login to work from home.

Where's the benefit to normal folk?!

Same, gutting.

 

[cjd]

Is there anyone out there ?

 

[hampshirebrightonboy]

A number of people in my team have had their PCs going to Blue Screen - unrecoverable. Not sure if it is relatated

 

[surrey jim]

Have they tried switching it off and on again?

 

[surrey jim]

Planes grounded as mass worldwide IT outage hits airlines, media and banks

The cause of the outage is unclear - but Microsoft says it's taking "mitigation issues".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[nevergoagain]

Aussie Telecoms company saying an issue with Crowdstrike. Also read that it's a code update release by Crowdstrike which would be hugely ironic if they've caused it.

 

[Bozza]

Suggestion is it’s an issue with Crowdstrike and/or Microsoft.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Global outage

Slow recovery from IT outage begins as experts warn of future risks

Fault in CrowdStrike caused airports, businesses and healthcare services to languish in ‘largest outage in history’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Yes yes planes grounded .. yes yes news channels unable to broadcast ... yes yes banks in metldown

As long as I can access rumours about football transfers which nobody believes are likely to happen that's all that matters surely

 

[nicko31]

NSC holding FIRM

 

[Han Solo]

Hospitals, banks, media, airlines hit by major IT outage

Cyber-security firm Crowdstrike said its update had caused the problem on computers running Windows.

www.bbc.com

What I gather from this is that infrastructure and communication in Australia is built on Microsoft Office products. That's certainly one way to build society...

 

[jcdenton08]

LABOUR/BARBER OUT

 

[Nobby]

Hello

HELLO?!!

 

[carlzeiss]

All 3 Pc's working fine here but all on Win10 not 11

 

[A1X]

Aussie Telecoms company saying an issue with Crowdstrike. Also read that it's a code update release by Crowdstrike which would be hugely ironic if they've caused it.

That regression testing, though…

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Is there anyone out there ?

Who said that?

 

[A1X]

Global outage

Slow recovery from IT outage begins as experts warn of future risks

Fault in CrowdStrike caused airports, businesses and healthcare services to languish in ‘largest outage in history’

www.theguardian.com

Thameslink tagging themselves on the end there

“No our delays are definitely because of this. Not because we’re useless, no sir.”

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]