Cybersecurity company’s outage causing disruptions worldwide, including at airports, reports say

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American, United and Delta airlines have requested the FAA put a global stop on all flights because of the disruption, ABC News reports.

AUSTIN, Texas — A major outage early Friday morning at the cybersecurity company Crowdstrike led to disruptions in computer operating systems worldwide, reports say, and is affecting airlines in the U.S.the outage occurred because of an issue with an update. Crowdstrike tells CNBC it’s in the process of rolling back the update.American, United and Delta airlines have requested the FAA put a global stop on all flights because of the disruption. As of 4:30 a.m.

Microsoft was able to restore its cloud services Friday morning, CNBC reports. However, Microsoft says users of Azure services and Microsoft 365 apps in the central U.S. might still see disruptions. Microsoft 365that the company was “working on rerouting the impacted traffic to alternate systems to alleviate impact in a more expedient fashion” and that they were “observing a positive trend in service availability.

The website DownDectector, which tracks user-reported internet outages, recorded growing outages in services at Visa, ADT security and Amazon. Payment systems at supermarkets in the Australia and U.K. reportedly were down. Some banks in New Zealand were offline.. State broadcaster ABC and Sky News Australia had programs disrupted. Reports say airports in Amsterdam and Rome also were impacted.

Other problems in the U.K. include disruptions to some train services and also to Sky News. The budget airline Ryanair also was affected.If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.

 

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