A customer takes care of his shopping next to blue screen at self-checkout terminals of a supermarket in Sydney on July 19, 2024. A large-scale outage wrought havoc on IT systems across Australia, with the country's national broadcaster, its largest international airport and a major telecommunications company reporting issues.
AirAsia Philippines came up with a separate statement, saying a global outage affecting Microsoft services has been confirmed by its partner, Navitaire. Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator said the “large-scale technical outage” was caused by an issue with a “third-party software platform”, adding there was no information as yet to suggest hacker involvement.
The UK’s biggest rail operator warned of possible train cancellations due to IT issues, while photos posted online showed large queues forming at Sydney Airport in Australia. Some self-checkout terminals at one of Australia’s largest supermarket chains were rendered useless, displaying blue error messages.