Businesses and health services have been impacted by a global outages. Airlines, banks, TV networks, and health services that depend on Microsoft 360 apps were disturbed following a software update.
The outages reportedly started at 1 a.m. EST and stems from a software update for Microsoft Windows operating systems issued by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
Delta, United and American Airlines have all cancelled flights. Overall, more than 1,200 flights have been cancelled. Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport has experienced 245 cancellations and 416 delays.
In a statement to passengers, Delta wrote, “Delta has paused its global flight schedule this morning due to a vendor technology issue that is impacting several airlines and businesses around the world. We are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible to resume operations. Customers with flights scheduled for Friday should continue checking their flight status via the Fly Delta app and Delta.com. We are also working to issue a travel waiver this morning that will allow customers scheduled to travel Friday, July 19, to manage changes to their itinerary via Delta.com or the Fly Delta app.”
And banks in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Britain have been affected as well.
Microsoft issued a statement saying, “The underlying cause has been fixed, however, residual impact is continuing to affect some Microsoft 365 apps and services. We’re conducting additional mitigations to provide relief. More details can be found within the admin center under MO821132…We’re continuing to apply mitigation actions to provide relief from the residual impact affecting the remaining impacted Microsoft 365 apps and services. Our telemetry is indicating that the remaining impacted scenarios are progressing towards a full recovery and we’re closely monitoring to ensure this progress continues.”
