Airports, banks and TV channels have all been knocked offline by a major global IT outage.
Downdetector reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps Flights have been grounded in the US, Australia and Germany. In the UK, train passengers have been warned of travel chaos during rush hour with several operators affected by ‘widespread IT issues’. One of our major TV channels, Sky News, was also off air on Friday. Elsewhere, a health booking system used by doctors in England is also offline.
The alert came less than an hour after Microsoft resolved its cloud services outage that impacted several low-cost carriers. It was not immediately clear whether the call to keep flights from taking off were related to the earlier Microsoft cloud outage. Berlin airport has halted all flights until 10am due to a technical fault, a spokesperson told Reuters on Friday. Earlier on Friday, airport operator BER said in a post on social media platform X that check-ins were delayed due to the error.
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