A global IT outage is causing chaos tonight, halting banking services, disrupting flights, preventing supermarket shopping and causing chaos for public transport users.
There were reports of disruptions to parts of the national bank payment system this evening, as well as global network outages for television and Microsoft services.
The Federal Aviation Administration grounded flights of several major U.S. airlines, including Delta, United and American Airlines, due to communications problems.
Herald Readers have told us stories of queues at supermarkets due to overcrowding at cash registers, and not being able to board or disembark from Auckland Transport’s HOP cards.
Issues have been reported with debit and credit cards from ASB, ANZ, Kiwibank and more.
ANZ Tap n Pay and Visa payWave are also reported to be down.
of Herald We attempted to reach the banking association for comment.
ASB confirmed that some of its services were down due to an “external vendor issue” that affected telecoms and banking companies around the world.
BNZ and Westpac Herald I have had no issues with online banking or payment systems.
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Herald readers have reported issues at supermarket tills tonight, with similar issues occurring at other stores.
A man at Woolworths Hobsonville said there had been queues of people having trouble at the tills due to issues with EFTPOS.
Newstalk ZB listeners are reporting outages affecting Mitre 10 in Hamilton, as well as customers at Bunnings, SBS Bank and Zero.
A person texted NZME to say Auckland Transport’s tag-on/tag-off terminals were also not working.
of Herald We understand that Jetstar is experiencing a global IT outage.
a Herald A reader reported that Jetstar announced over loudspeakers at Wellington Airport that flights were being delayed due to a power outage.
Christchurch International Airport has announced that an IT issue may cause flight disruptions.
Air New Zealand is Herald No operational impacts are known at this time.
Auckland Airport said all systems were operating normally and there were no check-in issues.
A police spokesman said they were not aware of any issues with the service, along with the New Zealand Fire Service.
Television stations including Sky News Australia have also stopped broadcasting. Daily Mail It reported that it was experiencing “ongoing technical issues.”
Users have reported that computers running Microsoft Windows have crashed all over the world, causing their computers to display a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD).
of The Wall Street Journal Microsoft tweeted that there was an outage with Microsoft 365 apps and services affecting businesses and users around the world.
Windows computers in various sectors, including supermarkets, banks, and broadcasting stations, are reported to be experiencing BSOD errors.
Reports of the outage have been made online through the Downdetector website, indicating issues with Microsoft 365 services.
The issue is reportedly linked to an update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
CrowdStrike said its “engineering teams are actively working to resolve this issue.”
Sky says Crowdstrike is down.
“The supermarkets were in chaos.” Herald readers wrote on social media.
“The self-checkouts all started giving errors and resetting. By the time I got to the front of the line there were only two or three functioning self-checkouts left.”
Another wrote: “The reports of BSOD crashes of computer systems are bothering me. I went to Chemist Warehouse and Woolies today and both had at least one computer system with a BSOD issue, and the computer system at Chemist Warehouse was stuck in a reboot and BSOD loop. Weird.”
A New Zealander on holiday in Fiji Herald He has been unable to access his funds through ASB Bank for the past two hours and has been unable to contact the bank to get an answer.
another Herald Readers say Kiwibank cards and EFTPOS won’t be working tonight.
Kiwibank said it was aware of issues with internet banking and logging into its app.
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