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Updated 10:02 AM EDT, Fri July 19, 2024
By Helen Regan, Jessie Yeung, Kathleen Magramo, Olesya Dmitracova, Christian Edwards, Sana Noor Haq, Eric Levenson and Adrienne Vogt, CNN
What you need to know
37 min ago Today's cyber outage could be "largest in history," cybersecurity expert says
48 min ago President Biden has been briefed on tech outage
1 hr 29 min ago Italian air, rail and sea services delayed due to outages
2 hr 6 min ago International airlines, banks and hospitals hit by global IT outages.
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/global-outage-intl-hnk/index.html
By Helen Regan, Jessie Yeung, Kathleen Magramo, Olesya Dmitracova, Christian Edwards, Sana Noor Haq, Eric Levenson and Adrienne Vogt, CNN
What you need to know
- Global outages: Tech disruptions worldwide have hit airlines, banks, businesses and even emergency services.
- Critical services affected: 911 servicesare down in several states in the US. Major US airlines, including Delta, United and American Airlines, have had flights grounded, and airlines in Europe and Asia are also seeing disruptions. Banks in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Britain have been impacted, as have health services in Israel, Germanyand the UK.
- What’s behind this? The outages appear to stem at least partly from a software update for Microsoft Windows operating systems issued by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, experts tell CNN.
- Fix deployed, but impacts remain:CrowdStrike’s CEO said that a fix has been deployed. And Microsoft said the “underlying cause” has been fixed, but that the outages are still affecting some services.
37 min ago Today's cyber outage could be "largest in history," cybersecurity expert says
48 min ago President Biden has been briefed on tech outage
1 hr 29 min ago Italian air, rail and sea services delayed due to outages
2 hr 6 min ago International airlines, banks and hospitals hit by global IT outages.
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/global-outage-intl-hnk/index.html
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