A computer incident linked to a Microsoft cloud update impacts services worldwide this Friday, July 19, 2024. In Australia, the television channel ABCBut Sydney Airport and a major supermarket chain were also affected by a large-scale technical failure. The public broadcaster describes it as a “major” problem, queues are multiplying at Sydney International Airport and some self-checkout terminals are displaying error messages, reportsAFP.

Airports around the world affected

Airports around the world are experiencing technical disruptions. IAFP Note that “all Spanish airports”just like Berlin International Airport or Amsterdam Airport, are affected by this global outage. The spokesperson for Berlin International Airport explained: “We only have information that we have a technical problem and as a result there are delays in check-in and the air service has had to be suspended until 10 in the morning.”.

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Ryanair has announced that it will be affected by disruptions. Air France, meanwhile, said that operations are “disturbed on certain scales”but Parisian airports are currently spared. In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has explained that all flights “whatever the destination” were punished because “Communication problems”.

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These disruptions are not limited to airports, but actually affect a wide variety of sectors. In the Netherlands, for example, hospitals are affected. In the UK, the largest rail operator announced IT problems, speaking of “extensive computer problems”.

These incidents are believed to be related to a technical incident originated by Microsoft. The American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, which is also one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the world, suffered a technical failure during an update, which caused laptops running Microsoft software to crash. Many laptops were reportedly forced to try to restart and display an error message.

According ABC News Australia the fault was caused “due to an issue affecting organizations that have CrowdStrike Falcon installed in their IT environments”. Microsoft assures that its services “they are getting better”and take “Mitigation measures”.