According to "ABC News", airlines, airports, banks and media companies around the world are suddenly experiencing continuous technical outages due to technical problems with the US cybersecurity company Crowdstrike, which may have affected millions of people.
According to the warning issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on the afternoon of Friday (19th) Taiwan time, American Airlines, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines have requested the FAA to order the grounding of all flights worldwide. The FAA is telling air traffic controllers to notify pilots that airlines are currently experiencing communications issues.
American Airlines said in a statement obtained by ABC News:
"We are aware that technical issues with CrowdStrike are affecting multiple airlines, and American is working with CrowdStrike to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and apologizes to our customers for the inconvenience."
Passenger video shared by ABC News showed long check-in lines at Harry Reid International Airport in Nevada due to the technical issue.
Passenger video captures long lines at the Harry Reid International Airport in Paradise, Nevada, as IT outages reported across the globe see airlines, airports, banks and media companies suddenly experiencing ongoing disruptions.Read more: https://t.co/A91GddmfZl pic.twitter.com/3FOG0jbJhj
— ABC News (@ABC) July 19, 2024
It's unclear how widespread the issue is, with Melbourne Airport in Australia saying they are "experiencing a global technical issue" that is affecting their check-in processes. The global IT outage was also reported in many countries, including Berlin Airport in Germany, the London Stock Exchange, Google Cloud, Microsoft and London Airport in the UK.
"We are investigating an issue that affects user access to various Microsoft 365 apps and services," Microsoft said in a statement today.
Crowdstrike has admitted responsibility for the error and is working to fix it.
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