Global tech outage grounds flights, hits banks and media businesses

London – Major airlines, media companies, banks and telecoms firms around the world reported systems outages Friday that were disrupting their operations.

In the US, hundreds of flights were cancelled Friday morning. American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines were among those who grounded flights less than an hour after Microsoft said it resolved a cloud-services-related outage that impacted several low-cost carriers.

Public transit systems in the U.S. reported impacts. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in Washington D.C. said its “website and some of our internal systems are currently down,”

but that trains and buses were running as scheduled. In New York City, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority also said it’s buses and trains were unaffected but that “some MTA customer information systems are temporarily offline due to a worldwide technical outage.”

Travel disruptions were reported with over 500 US flights cancelled as global IT outage prompts ground stop.The outages appeared to be linked to an update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, which is used by over half of Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. firm said in a promotional video this year.

In a post on X, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the outage was not a “security incident or cyberattack.” He said it was connected to a “defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts.” He said the issue has been “identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed.”

Microsoft said in a statement on X that “the underlying cause has been fixed,” however, residual impacts continue to affect “some Microsoft 365 apps and services. We’re conducting additional mitigations to provide relief.”

(USA Today)

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