Major worldwide tech outage from US cyber security company CrowdStrike plunges world's largest companies into chaos, grounds flights and prevents broadcasters from publishing news
Major broadcasters SBS, Network 10, the ABC and Sky News Australia were prevented from broadcasting scheduled programming on Friday afternoon. "Our services are still seeing continuous improvements while we continue to take mitigation actions," it said on X. The day I decide to fly Jetstar, it decides to have a Global outage preventing people from checking in. The planes are grounded until this resolves.It is also understood that passengers attempting to board Jetstar flight have been unable to check in due to the technical issues.The outage has also thrown travel into chaos abroad, with reports major American airlines have asked the Federal Aviation Administration to ground flights globally.
Shoppers have also taken to social media to describe the chaos at their local supermarkets, with Woolworths customers being met with the"blue screen of death" at self-checkouts. A Kmart store at Lidcombe in western Sydney has been forced to stop trade amid the outage on Friday afternoon. Picture: SkyNews.com.au