OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
11:43 AM – Friday, July 19, 2024
Friday saw disruptions to financial services, medical offices, airports, TV broadcasts, and more as businesses globally struggled with an ongoing catastrophic IT outage.
The global tech failure hit systems in the United States, Britain, Germany, Australia, Japan, Israel, India, and more.
Air travel has been particularly hard hit, with airlines grounded, services delayed, and passenger advisories issued by airports, leaving customers feeling stressed and angry.
“Video from flight tracker Flightradar24 shows how passenger flights over the U.S. was impacted during the early morning hours after a global IT outage impacted airlines and airport services nationwide,” CNBC reported.
Due to a problem with its most recent software update, cybersecurity behemoth CrowdStrike suffered a significant disruption earlier on Friday, the company informed NBC.
The company is “actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” said CEO George Kurtz. He also emphasized that Linux and Mac hosts were not affected.
In a related development, Microsoft announced on Friday that its cloud services had been restored following the outage, despite numerous users still reporting problems.
At 12:07 p.m. ET, CrowdStrike’s stock was down almost 9%.
According to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, the company is now collaborating with CrowdStrike to resolve the worldwide outage.
Microsoft and CrowdStrike have a somewhat shaky relationship since CrowdStrike makes a lot of money by showing clients how it can catch security vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s systems. Microsoft was harshly chastised by CEO George Kurtz during a CNBC interview last year.
Meanwhile, travelers stranded at New York’s JFK Airport this morning responded to the delays with a sense of resignation, exhaustion, and a desire to “visit the bar.”
“I’m still up, running on no sleep,” an unnamed mother said as she sat on a bar stool, drinking cold white wine. “Hell no. I got to the airport at 4 o’clock this morning,” she added.
Additionally, Alex Jones, the controversial founder of the website InfoWars, predicted last weekend that following an attempted assassination of former President Trump, power outages would take place across the world. Previously, Jones was also the first well-known media personality to publicly discuss Jeffrey Epstein’s island a decade before it hit news headlines.
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