Massive worldwide IT outage, hitting banks, airlines, supermarkets, broadcasters, etc. [19th July 2024]

[cupid_stunt]

Breaking news, it's causing absolute chaos across the world, including problems at the London Stock Exchange, and taking Sky News off air since 6am this morning.

There have been reports of computers running on Microsoft Windows having crashed worldwide, with users saying their computers were displaying a blue screen of death (BSOD).

The Wall Street Journal tweeted that Microsoft was reporting a service outage for its Microsoft 365 apps and services, affecting businesses and users across the world.

Windows computers are reportedly showing BSOD errors across various different sectors, including supermarkets, banks and broadcasters.

Reports of outages have been made online via the Downdetector website, showing issues with Microsoft 365 services.

The issue is reported to be linked to an update by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.

CrowdStrike says its “engineering teams are actively working to resolve this issue”.

Sky say ‘Crowdstrike’ has gone down.

Major global IT network outage affecting banking services, flights, television, supermarkets

The are reports of global network outages involving television and banking services.

www.nzherald.co.nz

 

[krtek a houby]

Nothing happening here... yet!

 

[cupid_stunt]

BBC Live reporting here - Mass worldwide IT outage affects airlines, media and banks

Train companies affected in UK

A major train company has warned passengers to expect disruption as it is suffering "widespread IT issues".

All four of Govia Thameslink Railway's brands - Southern, Thameslink, Gatwick Express and Great Northern - posted on social media: "We are currently experiencing widespread IT issues across our entire network.

 

[Yossarian]

Is it too early to start looting?

 

[krtek a houby]

I blame NATO/Putin/Deep State/Hilary/Dwyer

 

[Elpenor]

Hope this means our work IT isn’t working either but should probably get out of bed to find out

 

[two sheds]

"CrowdStrike" wake up sheeple

 

[Elpenor]

"CrowdStrike" wake up sheeple

Can burning jet oil melt server farms?

 

[tommers]

LOL.

 

[Lord Camomile]

"CrowdStrike" wake up sheeple

Sounds like a grassroots, worker-led initiative to take down capitalism, and sounds like it's working...

 

[cupid_stunt]

Blimey!

US airlines issue global ground stop on all flights​

United, Delta and American Airlines - which are all based in the United States - have issued a "global ground stop" on all of their flights.

Flights that are currently airborne will continue, but no further flights will take off for now.

It seems to be getting worst, as more reports come in.

 

[tommers]

My heart goes out to any CSR even remotely connected to this.

And Crowdstrike's AMs. Solidarity brothers and sisters.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

So an anti x vendor has rolled out a buggy signature file or similar. Presumably making the agent crash causing the BSOD.
At a guess.
I’ve not looked at the architecture of those types of products for some time.
I’ve been to dinner with George Kurtz(Ceo and founder) . They were trying to sell us an early iteration of crowdstrike. It’s times like this that makes me still wish I had LinkedIn.

 

[starfish]

As long as Urban is still up we're good.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

And this kids, is why you should always use open source.

 

[Silas Loom]

And this kids, is why you should always use open source.

Is there really such a thing as open source endpoint protection for CNI?

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Probably.
I’ve since quit and my life is far removed from that world now.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Here: CrowdStrike code update bricking PCs around the world

 

[two sheds]

Delayed Great Reset from the Millennium Bug?

 

[Lord Camomile]

Tbf, for all the lols, this is presumably going to be causing all sorts of trouble for regular folk.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Seems we get a “bank holiday” without having to do that troublesome Euro 2024 win.

 

[Winot]

Can someone techie summarise the problem for us non-techie folk?

 

[moochedit]

My brother whatsapp'd me about this, joking it was north korea. I had no idea what he was talking about. The office365 emails and apps are working normally at my work (i read office365 was one of the things not working).
Not noticed anything not working here yet. Is it another botched update from microsoft?

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

An anti virus vendor has rolled out an update that crashes windows 10 computers.

Can someone techie summarise the problem for us non-techie folk?

 

[Petcha]

Tbf, for all the lols, this is presumably going to be causing all sorts of trouble for regular folk.

Yes. Southern Rail is down which i rely on to pick up my son.

Sky News is fucked atm

Sky News Live: Watch or listen

news.sky.com

 

[Winot]

An anti virus vendor has rolled out an update that crashes windows 10 computers.

So if you're on W11 you're OK?

 

[jakethesnake]

Cash only at my local shop and cash machine already run out!

 

[Lord Camomile]

9am beckons, going to be a lot of different wishes and prayers being uttered as people switch on their computers...

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

So if you're on W11 you're OK?

The problem is not for home users. The problem is windows 10 and crowdstrike is used extensively by global corporations and if they ain’t working, then the world ain’t working because that’s where we are.

 

[two sheds]

I thought the BSOD went out with Windows Vista