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A global IT outage has caused chaos across the world grinding businesses to a halt including; airlines, trains and checkouts, telecoms providers, broadcast media and financial institutions.
Reports say the global IT downtime was caused by a cybersecurity firm, CrowdStrike whose software is used by scores of industries around the world to protect against hackers and outside breaches.
Further information revealed that rhe problem appeared to result in crashes of machines running Microsoft Windows operating system.
The outage affected airlines’ operations in countries like Singapore, the United States and Australia.
In an update shared on its X account on Friday, Microsoft 365 said that “multiple services are continuing to see improvements in availability as our mitigation actions progress.”
According to a Microsoft web page tracking the status of its services, “users may be unable to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services.”
The global IT downtime is also affecting apps including Microsoft Fabric, Teams, Purview, Defender, SharePoint and OneNote.
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