Banks, media, supermarkets and tech platforms across Australia have been hit with a simultaneous outage caused by a cybersecurity glitch related to Crowdstrike software.
I must be lucky then. I have TPG and have experienced no outages whatsoever all day.
But it seems it is a large outage.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 19, 2024 7:55 AM |
BBC started a live feed on this. Looks like 911 is down in Alaska.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 19, 2024 7:58 AM |
911 is also unresponsive in Mississippi and Arkansas.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 19, 2024 8:00 AM |
On reddit they're saying this is an extremely easy fix (finding and deleting a file), and this is going to reveal a lot of incompetent IT people.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 19, 2024 8:06 AM |
It's hitting little systems like barcode scanners and causing a lot of problems at airports.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 19, 2024 8:33 AM |
Airlines everywhere reporting check-in issues. They're using whiteboards in Delhi for flight status.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 19, 2024 8:53 AM |
R8 Looks like CrowdStrike struck the wrong people!
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 19, 2024 8:54 AM |
I thought they always used whiteboards in Delhi for flight status, r10.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 19, 2024 8:55 AM |
CrowdStrike is going to be sued out of existence.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 19, 2024 8:56 AM |
Yes they are in big trouble R13. This will have cost hundreds of millions of dollars across the globe.
CrowdStrike - you in danger gurl.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 19, 2024 8:59 AM |
People would shut themselves if they knew how flimsy most essential tech is. And we also keep forgetting that tech is useless without the single point of failure that is electrical power.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 19, 2024 9:01 AM |
R13 Sadly, Microsoft has delivered hundreds if not thousands of bad updates that bricked certain computers worldwide, and they’re still in business. By now, technology lawyers probably write indemnification clauses in every contract.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 19, 2024 9:01 AM |
Has anyone here gotten the Blue Screen of Death yet?
Or in DL terms: Windows is DEAD to me!!!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 19, 2024 9:03 AM |
NHS is saying ther a issues at GP offices and hospitals.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 19, 2024 9:06 AM |
Spirit Airlines on a ground stop now, which may not be a bad thing.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 19, 2024 9:11 AM |
This is worldwide. Very serious.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 19, 2024 9:38 AM |
Hope this means a day off from work. The weather is finally just right.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 19, 2024 9:43 AM |
This is death by a thousand cuts. Lots of interconnected systems down.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 19, 2024 9:47 AM |
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said in a post on X that it was delaying the 5 a.m. start of train service in the capital region because of the outage, and that buses may also be affected. Its website and call center are also down.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 19, 2024 9:49 AM |
CrowdStrike saying it's a windows update that's the culprit. Microsoft fanboys melting down as I type.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 19, 2024 9:54 AM |
I've been getting emergence messages since about 4:30 AM from a major medical center where I work in New York City. It has gone from a level 1 to a level 3 (the highest?). I'm not sure what it means, but it will be an interesting day at work today.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 19, 2024 10:01 AM |
Ugh. As if Mac users weren't smug enough already.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 19, 2024 10:01 AM |
Health-care systems across the globe were hobbled by the Microsoft outage. It caused chaos for patients checking in for appointments across Britain, canceled elective procedures in German hospitals and complicated some emergency response systems in the United States.
In Britain, the National Health Service was crippled throughout the morning on Friday, as it lost access to its computer systems across a number of hospitals and doctors offices. But health-care providers were clear that there was no impact on emergency services, or the ability to provide care.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 19, 2024 10:04 AM |
CrowdStrike shares down 20% on premarket.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 19, 2024 10:18 AM |
Nothing available at work and I need those security cameras as well as teams… My iPhone is losing power and I didn’t bring a cord.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 19, 2024 10:26 AM |
R27 I am a remote employee of a hospital in Alabama (I live on the West Coast) and apparently I'm one of the only people who still has full access to our eMAR. Otherwise everyone else is on paper.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 19, 2024 10:31 AM |
American said they've lifted the ground stop. Timezones kept this from being much worse.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 19, 2024 10:34 AM |
And I imagine other countries going through it ahead of the US helped, too.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 19, 2024 10:40 AM |
Just heard from a colleague worked the night shift at my medical center in NYC, all our computers, cameras, and telephones are out. This is a very dangerous situation.
- R27
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 19, 2024 10:43 AM |
R12 Microsoft basically runs from India, doesn't it?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 19, 2024 10:44 AM |
Their servers are all over the globe R36.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 19, 2024 10:48 AM |
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issued an advisory on the outage with a “severity rating” of “critical."
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 19, 2024 10:51 AM |
Travelers on the East Coast headed to airports on Friday were greeted with chaos and uncertainty. Airports from Boston to Miami were experiencing severe disruptions, according to FlightAware, a database that tracks flight information. As of about 7 a.m., there were more than 500 flight delays across the country.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 19, 2024 11:03 AM |
Oh, shit. I’m out of gas - hope the pumps/payment screens are working.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 19, 2024 11:12 AM |
Several days of whack-a-mole fun.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 19, 2024 11:13 AM |
r41 me too!
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 19, 2024 11:18 AM |
There were about 110,000 commercial flights scheduled worldwide on Friday, about a quarter of which were set to depart from locations in the U.S., according to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics company.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | July 19, 2024 11:20 AM |
Apparently some genius thought it was a good idea to perform an update on a Friday.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 19, 2024 11:47 AM |
Tech is rife with "geniuses" like this.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 19, 2024 11:52 AM |
Wouldn't it be funny if this person who decided to do an update on a Friday was also a DEI woman?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 19, 2024 12:51 PM |
It's impacting a quarter of my company, including me. No work for now!
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 19, 2024 12:52 PM |
I was in the middle of doctoring some photos...
by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 19, 2024 1:14 PM |
[quote] CrowdStrike saying it's a windows update that's the culprit.
R25 Right, Microsoft should never release an update until every company in the world pre-tests the update and reports back to Microsoft if it causes a problem. /s
I work for one of the largest medical centers in the world. No Windows Update can be installed on network computers until they are tested by IT that they are compatible with the many software programs that run in the medical center. That means we are often weeks to months behind on the latest updates. Only after testing does IT do a remote Windows Update on computers attached to the network.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 19, 2024 1:20 PM |
This was an "accident" or error.
This shows how fragile the entire system really is.
Terrifying.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | July 19, 2024 1:41 PM |
Starbucks is down!
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 19, 2024 1:42 PM |
Look over there!
by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 19, 2024 1:42 PM |
Crikey!
by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 19, 2024 1:55 PM |
But they’re upside down what do you expect?
by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 19, 2024 2:16 PM |
Every law department around the world is scouring their Crowdstrike agreements, even now. Are consequentials excluded? What's indemnification for losses from a software update? Only for 3d party claims? How's that LoL?
by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 19, 2024 2:38 PM |
NY having to release criminals since they can’t book them in time.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | July 19, 2024 2:41 PM |
Biggest IT outage in history. It's amazing.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 19, 2024 2:56 PM |
As long as OnlyFans is still working ....
by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 19, 2024 3:52 PM |
Meh.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | July 19, 2024 4:31 PM |
I suppose they are going to blame Pete Buttigieg for this as well.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | July 19, 2024 4:44 PM |
I work for Amazon and am dead in the water. The fixes online aren't working.
Frustrating.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | July 19, 2024 6:08 PM |
It seems like every health system in the Tristate is down…except for my hospital.
This is a good and bad thing.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 19, 2024 6:17 PM |
Hey EPIC is back up by me VOTN.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 19, 2024 6:20 PM |
This is a taste of when the revolution begins, no guns will be needed, waut until they shut off the gas when it's -20.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 19, 2024 6:28 PM |
I got a blue screen of DEAD TO ME but my PC rose again. Halleloo!
by Anonymous | reply 67 | July 19, 2024 6:32 PM |
Imagine if NYC had a blackout like the 70;s, the meltdown of people unable to use their laptops and iphones would be hilarious. Cant even call Uber. Do they remember how to hail a cab? Would they have real cash to pay him?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | July 19, 2024 6:36 PM |
A guy came into Starbucks raging because he couldn't order online. He wanted the drink he couldn't order, and he wanted it now! When some of us informed him it was a worldwide issue, he still blamed Starbucks for his inability to be attended to immediately. This while seven of us were waiting in line to order in the store.
The world worked fine in the 60s, 70s and 80s. There was no computer system to go out and you used your creative thinking to bypass any problems you encountered. Back then, everyone stopped at an intersection when the traffic lights were out, which was infrequent. Now, people see the light isn't working and they speed through the intersection anyway.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | July 19, 2024 6:39 PM |
R68 that's pretty much transport everywhere these days... scary. I don't know if a lot of people could get out of the airport to ground transport without their phones or electronic money... don't know if I would. That's a good point.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | July 19, 2024 6:39 PM |
The world worked fine in the 60s, 70s and 80s.
Yes sort of but you wouldn't have what you have now, like you're posting on a stupid website now. Go for a walk boomer Gramps.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | July 19, 2024 10:02 PM |
Anyone out there still want to vote over the Internet?
by Anonymous | reply 72 | July 19, 2024 10:09 PM |
[quote] it seems it is a large outage.
Pics please.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | July 19, 2024 10:11 PM |
[quote] Starbucks is down!
Oh good lord, it’s going to be a grande triple shot double whip sugar free vanilla iced latte free Friday. The horrors, I think I’m just going to go back to bed and get up when the world is fixed.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | July 19, 2024 10:38 PM |
I'm glad I had nothing planned for Friday.
It sounds like a fucking shit show out there.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | July 19, 2024 11:03 PM |
A friend is flying to Washington from SFO to visit/say goodbye to her dying (from brain cancer cousin) and her flight is delayed still because they can't check in. I just talked to her. This is some serious shit.
Our work computers are working just fine, no issues. I didn't know about this outage until a few hours ago - we're working remotely today.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | July 19, 2024 11:23 PM |
I’m in the US and have an app on my phone from a chain of truck stops that left me a notification which turned out to be an apology for their systems being all fucked up by this, including their shower reservation system.
I’m glad now that I decided to get the app and am not on a road trip and wanting to get cleaned up! I’d have taken the issue as just one more unreliable roadside chain’s FUBAR that resulted because they weren’t bothering to pretend to give a shit anymore.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | July 19, 2024 11:38 PM |
Systems finally came up a few minutes ago at my NYC medical center. They were out for almost 16 hours. I can't guess how many medication errors were probably made.
- R27
by Anonymous | reply 78 | July 19, 2024 11:43 PM |
I feel bad for whoever was traveling today.
What a nightmare.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | July 20, 2024 1:48 AM |
The woke world is up in arms over the recent internet outage taking over the world. Today we have the ladies of view AGAIN to show us how exactly this ties to the climate crisis….
by Anonymous | reply 80 | July 20, 2024 3:23 AM |
Happy that my small non-profit had NO involvement with this shit, despite being on the Microsoft 365 Cloud.
I can't even say that you all deserved it because....we're on m365 and not affected. Also, I hate Apple.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | July 20, 2024 3:27 AM |
Saw one guy on TV that said this is what we thought would happen in the year 2000 instead it is happening in 2024.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | July 20, 2024 3:33 AM |
I couldn’t use Apple Pay at TJ’s!
by Anonymous | reply 83 | July 20, 2024 3:39 AM |
Chocolate hummus, paid for in cash!
by Anonymous | reply 84 | July 20, 2024 3:46 AM |
Apple Pay is probably screwed and haha to them.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | July 20, 2024 3:47 AM |
UBER app crashed for 3 hours this afternoon. Every time we opened it and punched in our destination we got a pop up "we are experiencing technical difficulties try back in a few minutes" so we did 9 times. We were charged for 9 rides that were never dispatched. Wound up on the bus. Welcome to the cashless society.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | July 20, 2024 5:42 AM |
R51, not a hacking event?
I don't trust the 365 cloud. Everything is on the hard drive, backed up to an external drive.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | July 20, 2024 9:16 AM |
At the micro level, I always make a Windows backup before I install a new program or update an existing program, including Windows itself. Ninety-nine percent of the time, there’s no problem. But that other 1% may make you wish you were never born if you didn’t make a backup first.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | July 20, 2024 9:28 AM |
Did they also blame White male supremacy, R80? Because White males are the root of all evil in the dystopian fantasy land of The View. Just ask Poopie Goldberg.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | July 20, 2024 11:14 AM |
Damn! Nothing gets past R87.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | July 20, 2024 2:57 PM |
[quote]The world worked fine in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Yes sort of but you wouldn't have what you have now, like you're posting on a stupid website now. Go for a walk boomer Gramps.
I am not a Boomer and I generally dont like Boomers but my hunch is Boomer Gramps would know how to get out of the city on his own accord without a cell phone while Gen Y would be crying in the airport lounge because he has no cash and no idea how to survive without a phone in his hand. He wont even have enough physical cash to buy himself a drink to drown his sorrows.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | July 20, 2024 6:51 PM |
Thank you, R93.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | July 20, 2024 11:39 PM |
R90, what do you define as an update that you back up your system before installing? Windows has been sending out several updates a day for the last week or so, mainly security ones.
TIA
by Anonymous | reply 95 | July 21, 2024 12:05 PM |
R95 I don’t allow Windows to make updates automatically. Before I manually allow Windows to do all the updates since my last manual update, I make a system backup.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | July 25, 2024 7:42 AM |