By Brooke Mallory, OAN Staff
Friday, July 19, 2024 11:43 AM
Disruptions were seen in financial services, medical clinics, airports and television broadcasts on Friday as businesses around the world suffered an ongoing, catastrophic IT outage.
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The global technology outage hit systems in the United States, Britain, Germany, Australia, Japan, Israel and India, among others.
Air travel has been particularly hard hit, with airlines grounding flights, services being delayed, airports issuing passenger advisories and leaving passengers feeling stressed and angry.
“Video from Flight Tracker Flightradar24 It shows how passenger flights over the US were affected in the early morning hours after a global IT outage affected airline and airport services across the country. CNBC report.
Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike said it suffered major disruptions early Friday morning due to issues with its latest software update. NBC.
The company is “actively working with customers affected by the flaw found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” said CEO George Kurtz, who also emphasized that Linux and Mac hosts are not affected.
Relatedly, Microsoft said Friday that its cloud services had been restored after an outage, though many users were still reporting issues.
As of 12:07 p.m. ET, CrowdStrike shares were down nearly 9%.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company is currently working with CrowdStrike to resolve the global outage.
Microsoft has a somewhat rocky relationship with CrowdStrike, as the company makes a lot of money by showing customers how to find security vulnerabilities in Microsoft systems, and has drawn harsh criticism from Microsoft CEO George Kurtz. CNBC Interview from last year.
Meanwhile, travelers stranded at New York’s JFK airport this morning were met with a mixture of delays, fatigue and a desire to go to a bar.
“I’m still up and running,” said the mother, who asked not to be named, sitting on a bar stool and sipping a chilled glass of white wine. “This is crazy. I got to the airport at 4am this morning,” she added.
Additionally, the website’s controversial founder, Alex Jones, Infowarspredicted a global blackout following the assassination attempt on former President Trump last weekend. Jones was also previously the first prominent media personality to speak publicly about Jeffrey Epstein’s island, a decade before it made headlines.
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