A global outage is affecting airlines, banks, broadcasters and other organisations. Here’s what’s happening and what to expectExplainer: why is the global IT outage happening and who is affected? The global ‘blue screen of death’ outage affecting airlines, banks, telecoms companies, broadcasters and others is due to a faulty file from an IT security company called Crowdstrike. In Ireland, Ryanair and the National Car Testing (NCT) service are the highest profile casualties so far of the global outage with some flights delayed and the NCT cancelling some tests today. Separately, Microsoft also appears to be experiencing an outage, cutting off access for some users to its Microsoft 365 apps and online services.

Source: Irish Independent July 19, 2024 13:51 UTC