In Australia, media, banks and telecoms companies suffered outages, which the government said appears to be linked to an issue at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. Crowdsourced website Downdetector showed outages at several banks and telecoms companies.
Crowdstrike ran a recorded phone message on Friday when Reuters contacted its technical support saying it was aware of reports of crashes on Microsoft's Windows operating system relating to its Falcon sensor, without mentioning Australia. There was no information to suggest the outage was a cyber security incident, the office of Australia's National Cyber Security Coordinator Michelle McGuinness said in a post on X.
The outages rippled far and wide, with Spain reporting a "computer incident" at all its airports, while Ryanair, Europe's largest airline by passenger numbers, warned passengers of potential disruptions which it said would affect "all airlines operating across the Network," though it did not specify the nature of the disruptions.
AWS cloud service provider said in a statement that it was "investigating reports of connectivity issues to Windows EC2 instances and Workspaces within AWS." It was not immediately clear whether all reported outages were linked to Crowdstrike problems or there were other issues at play.
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Although this IT failure of an update by Crowdstrike, who are worth Billions. Has caused a worldwide failure of computerised systems. This has illustrated that they are very dangerously controlling ALL Worldwide Systems. They must be stopped from having this control. But I still think Russia infiltrated the Crowdstrike update without them knowing.
Stephen GrimmerTotally agree. How I wish Putin would be assassinated. As his KGB colleagues will be responsible. It is a great wake up call for the whole world. Frightening for everyone. How dangerous to life has this attack threatened us all.
Will be traced back to an IP address in Russia no doubt. There is a war on you know!
Skynet at last is taking over.