Global Cyber Outage Causes Chaos, Disrupting Airlines, Banks, Media, Telecoms and More

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A massive technology outage has disrupted businesses and institutions in multiple countries on Friday, throwing airports, airlines, rail companies, government services, banks, stock exchanges, supermarkets, telecoms, health systems and media outlets into chaos.

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[zibbydoo324]

I swear to god. This better not impact my company too. 🙏🙏

[steffi_333]

Other than our VPN ours has been fine and our global IT have implemented a fix now so it's working a bit better. Some people's PCs have blue-screened though

[zibbydoo324]

Uuuugh. This doesn’t really inspire a lot of confidence in my company. 😭 Plus we’re west coast based. I’d wager we’ve yet to start diagnosing.
I’m glad you can work if that’s what you want.

[steffi_333]

I mean, I’d have preferred if the company shut down for the day ngl 🤣

[zibbydoo324]

I’m normally you. Love those adult snow days but I’m on vacation next week with very tight turnarounds the week I get back.

[steffi_333]

this is fair. i also have some monday deadlines but also a big old case of the fridays!

[benihime99]

it's a clusterfuck
if you're impacted and you don't want your computer to constantly reboot you need to press F8 key the operating system boots before the BSOD

[steffi_333]

Luckily I somehow avoided BSoD. Not sure which machines got affected - like if it was some left on overnight or those that tried booting up at a certain time. Had a mixed bunch at my place.

[aslighttwist]

If your company doesn't use CrowdStrike, you should be fine.

[zibbydoo324]

thank you! The vpn part is what had me worried but I’ve already been working for an hour.