Microsoft Outage: The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike which provides services to numerous industries was down across the world since this morning. At least three major US airlines American, United and Delta, grounded all flights. Meanwhile, in Australia, New South Wales Police Forces said that problems persisted at Sydney Airport.
Microsoft said on Thursday it was investigating issues with its cloud services in the Central US region, which has disrupted services worldwide. Major airlines across the world said that the outage has adversely affected their flight operations, including in Delhi and Mumbai. Akasa Airlines announced that some of its online services will be temporarily unavailable at the Mumbai and Delhi airports. Spicejet also said in a statement that it is currently facing a technical issue in providing flight updates.
The outage also affected reservations and bookings for another discount carrier, Allegiant Air, which operates around 130 aircraft and said it’s working on resolving issues.
News outlets in Australia also reported that airlines, telecommunications providers and banks, and media broadcasters were disrupted as they lost access to computer systems. Some banks in New Zealand said they were also offline.
Leading bourse National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday said it has not been impacted by the global outage of Microsoft systems amid reports of disruptions in functioning of stock exchanges in several countries. Microsoft users globally, several in India, have reported massive outages in services, with outage tracking website Downdetector showing users flagging disruptions across various services.
Indigo airlines also said that its systems
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