The problem affected airline communications, causing the FAA to ground all domestic American Airlines, Delta and United Airlines flights.
Microsoft, which hosts cloud services with businesses and governments, said it was grappling with service outages after a glitch triggered by software distributed by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
“This is basically what we were all worried about with Y2K, except it’s actually happened this time,” internet security analyst Troy Hunt “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” the company said in a statement.When the faulty update crashed computer systems, scores of airport travelers were stranded, hospital appointments were delayed and live news broadcasts were cut short.Some computer problems cascade, creating ripples of failures. But in this case, the flaw permeated Microsoft systems worldwide nearly immediately.
“This IT outage is a stark reminder of how dependent we are on technology and many other things that happen behind the scenes that most of us are unaware of,” said Louisville-based tech executive Adam RobinsonPassengers wait in front of check-in counters at the capital’s Berlin Brandenburg Airport, in Schönefeld, Germany, on Friday after a widespread technology outage disrupted flights, banks, media outlets and companies around the world.
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