What is affected by the global IT outage? Trains, airports and checkouts

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/19/checkouts-trains-airports-affected-global-it-shutdown/

by TheTelegraph

18 comments

  1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

    # Airlines

    Frontier Airlines has grounded flights for over two hours and [blamed issues with Microsoft’s online services](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/19/outage-tech-internet-broadband-banking-uk-australia-world/).

    In the US, American Airlines, United and Delta have asked the Federal Aviation Administration for a global stop on all flights, according to an alert from the FAA.

    Ryanair has told passengers to arrive an hour earlier than normal for flights, and Manchester Airport has said that its ground teams are handling operations manually.

    All flights have reportedly been grounded at Berlin Brandenburg Airport. It comes after the airport initially warned that a technical issue would cause delays to check-ins.

    # Trains

    Thameslink, Southern Rail and Gatwick Express face “widespread IT issues across our entire network” that have left it unable to access driver diagrams at some locations. It says this will cause potential delays, particularly on Thameslink and Great Northern. There are also reports of ticket machines not working at some stations.

    Northern rail company Merseyrail has warned the crisis is affecting its passenger information boards and the ability to print third-party tickets at stations.

    # News organisations

    Sky News has stopped broadcasting and is displaying a message apologising to viewers. It says the broadcaster hopes to resume its schedule shortly.

    The Telegraph has been hit by issues with logging into computer systems and accessing the internet.

    **Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/19/checkouts-trains-airports-affected-global-it-shutdown/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/19/checkouts-trains-airports-affected-global-it-shutdown/)

  3. And no birds singing this morning. Hmmm, it’s just a coincidence of course

  5. Great to see 80% of European infrastructure being dependent on one US company

    What could go wrong?

    I see no issue there

  6. The problem is not at microsoft itself. Crowdstrike provides software for remote device protection “stuff”. They pushed an update which, when installed on a windows computer(this also includes windows server) causes it to bluescreen. Microsoft probably uses it themselves and many companies rely on microsoft clouds. Many companies also directly use Crowdstrike

  8. Europe being the United Kingdom apparently since nobody else seems to be affected that bad.

  9. Not microsoft it‘s crowdstrike (Name checks out lol). The problem apparently is a bootloop which is caused by a file. So you manually have to delete that on every system. What a clusterfuck… that‘s almost worst case scenario. Imagine you have to manually patch thousands of servers…

  11. I know of at least one big car manufacturer that currently does nothing as everything is offline because of this…

  12. I’ve been sitting in MXP since 8:20am trying to get to JFK

  13. And yet, at my work, everything is working just fine, fml

  14. By all means, continue using Windows in critical infrastructure! WCGW?

  16. My work computer is affected at the moment. I guess it’s paid time-off for me now🤷🏻‍♀️🤷

  18. Is anyone even surprised by this ? Feels like these things are ticking time bombs waiting to happen. The fragility of our it systems and our dependency of them is just shown so clearly

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