A major global cyber outage has disrupted operations for airlines, banks, and media outlets across multiple countries, including Singapore, the United States, and Australia. The IT outage, which began early Friday, has caused significant service interruptions worldwide.
Several airports and airlines have reported issues with their IT systems, leading to grounded flights and delays. Sydney Airport has experienced flight disruptions, while United Airlines has halted operations. The London Stock Exchange Group’s platform is also facing interruptions.
In Germany, Berlin Airport has reported IT system issues causing check-in delays due to a technical fault. Sky News is off-air as a result of the outage, with Sky News Executive Chairman David Rhodes confirming the inability to broadcast live this morning. Rhodes stated, “Sky News has not been able to broadcast live TV this morning. Much of our news report is still available online, and we are working hard to restore all services.”
Rail transportation has also been affected, with UK’s Govia Thameslink Railway reporting widespread IT issues across its network, leading to potential short-notice cancellations, particularly on the Thameslink and Great Northern lines. The company’s real-time customer information platforms are also impacted.
Telstra Group, an Australian telecommunicati
Microsoft attributed the disruption to a configuration change in a portion of its Azure backend workloads, causing connectivity failures that affected downstream Microsoft 365 services. The affected services include PowerBI, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 admin center, and Microsoft Purview.
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