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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[xdecadentx]

Yet my work computer is fine.

My colleague's husband is trying to get a flight home so they've been stressing most of the morning.

[kerosene_pill]

I was so excited last night when the news was panicking trying to get themselves together. Then I went on reddit and saw that it was a global Microsoft issue. I was like "oh shit I literally just restarted my work computer for an update when I finished my day, guess its a 3 day weekend!"

Nope. Ugh.

[arellaj]

Was wondering why my boss texting me at 6am.

[anthknee]

Ugh my partner is dealing with this for his international flight. I hope he gets home today.

[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 🤣

[progression]

I didn’t feel like working today anyway, so this is great. Did not appreciate the 5am call/text/email tho.