Live: Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
www.abc.net.au
There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…

  • @[email protected]English
    96•2 months ago

    This is going to be a Big Deal for a whole lot of people. I don’t know all the companies and industries that use Crowdstrike but I might guess it will result in airline delays, banking outages, and hospital computer systems failing. Hopefully nobody gets hurt because of it.

    • @[email protected]English
      43•2 months ago

      Big chunk of New Zealands banks apparently run it, cos 3 of the big ones can’t do credit card transactions right now

      • @indexEnglish
        -11•2 months ago

        cos 3 of the big ones can’t do credit card transactions right now

        Bitcoin still up and running perhaps people can use that

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 months ago

          Bitcoin Cash maybe. Didn’t they bork Bitcoin (Core) so you have to wait for confirmations in the next block?