Businesses including banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, television and radio broadcasters and supermarkets have been taken offline following a mass global outage.
Major US airlines, including American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines, were grounded, while airports in Germany and Spain also reported problems.
Passengers at Edinburgh airport were unable to use automated boarding pass scanners and security monitors displayed a message saying “server offline”, according to a Reuters witness.
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The airport went back to checking boarding passes manually, the witness said.
Also in the UK, Southern, Thameslink, Gatwick Express and Great Northern – all four Govia Thameslink Railway brands – said their services were experiencing widespread IT problems.
“We are unable to access driver diagrams in certain locations, leading to possible short-term cancellations, particularly on the Thameslink and Great Northern networks,” the company said.
“In addition, other important systems, including our real-time customer information platforms, will also be affected.”
This comes as Microsoft says it continues to address the “persistent impact” of its 365 apps and services that are in a “degraded state” – it is unknown whether this is the same issue affecting airports and rail services across the world. world.
The outage appears to be affecting Windows PCs around the world, including Sky News in the UK, which was unable to broadcast live TV on Friday morning.
Users of the cybersecurity company Crowdstrike’s subreddit reported problems in India, the United States and New Zealand.
Although users in Australia began reporting issues on Friday, claiming they were locked out of their workstations.
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