A far-reaching global IT outage has caused high-level disruption, hitting banks, airlines, telecom providers, broadcast networks, and supermarkets.
This wide-ranging disruption has stopped many companies from functioning online.
Reports have emerged of a system-wide ground stop by major US airlines — Delta, United, and American Airlines — Friday morning. A technical communications issue caused problems with automated boarding pass scanners at Edinburgh Airport in Scotland, blacking out with a “server offline” message for passengers.
Meanwhile, services for three brands of Govia Thameslink Railway in the UK—Southern, Thameslink, Gatwick Express, and Great Northern—were hit by widespread IT failures.
Sky News went off air temporarily, and the programme transmission was unavailable to its viewers.
Three Indian carriers were impacted, while another technical problem grounded flights at Berlin Brandenburg Airport due to IT issues.
Also, an IT outage has hit Spanish airports, while Microsoft 365 users suffered issues in accessing cloud apps.
