With Microsoft’s outage continuing to cause causing widespread disruption, The chief executive of CrowdStrike, the firm at the centre of the global IT outage, has said he is “deeply sorry” for the incident, but warned it would take “some time” for systems to be fully restored
George Kurtz, the chief executive of CrowdStrike, said he was “deeply sorry” for the disruption, which has thrown travel plans into chaos and left patients unable to book appointments with their GP.
Businesses including airlines and media companies were knocked offline on Friday in a global IT outage believed to have been caused by a faulty cybersecurity software update
Greater Manchester was hit with transport disruption this morning with Manchester Airport and Transpennine Express amongst providers being hit
National Rail’s website is warning of a “network wide IT issue affecting a number of train operators services this morning”.
Manchester Airport are having to check in travellers manually while GP surgeries across the region are also being affected
Manchester Airport has said the IT outage is only affecting Swissport, who do some of the ground handling work for a few airlines.
The company is manually checking people in, meaning that check-in for flights served by Swissport is taking a little longer and making those areas busier.
A Manchester Airport spokesman insisted that passengers don’t need to alter their plans, adding “we don’t want people thinking they need to come to the airport earlier because that can cause overcrowding”.
The outage is affecting systems worldwide according to numerous reports with banks and media outlets also hit
In the U.K. Sky News was taken off the air
Thousands of GP practices across England have been affected by the global IT outage, which has hampered the booking of appointments and issuing of prescriptions
J D Wetherspoon has confirmed the global system outage has disabled the pub chain’s app.
