Australia's Microsoft outage, Crowdstrike crisis
A massive global Microsoft outage has hammered Australian businesses including Woolworths, Qantas, the ABC and Foxtel, 7-Eleven - with computers around the country repeatedly crashing and displaying the 'blue screen of death'.
The country was struck by an unprecedented cyber event at about 3pm on Friday, with at least 48 Australian services suffering outages, according to the Down Detector website on Friday afternoon.
The outage is believed to have been caused by Crowdstrike security software which caused computers to crash, with users posting photos of the chaos on the online platforms that were still available.
DNC Hack, Russia connection
CrowdStrike behind the DNC Hack, Seth Rich data intercepted
Q is implying that CrowdStrike manipulates source, can do foreign intercepts, tracee 'break-in' routes, bulk data connection & frame an intended target as the intruder by inserting/layering code.
WHO DID THEY PROVIDE COVER FOR?
HOW FAR BACK DID IT GO?
Ukraine Connection
Shawn Henry CEO of CrowdStrike.
Before this, Shawn Henry Named Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Division by none other than Robert Mueller
Trump brought up CrowdStrike in call to Zelenksy that got him impeached.
Mainstream ran mocking campaign using Articles like this to discredit any connection between CrowdStrike and Ukraine.
Trump's call was not about investigating Joe. It was about uncovering the origins of the Russia Hoax.
This article explains the deeper connections between Obama's State Dept, Ukrainian coup, CrowdStrike and all the same players behind these.
Assange Connection.
Everybody here knows Assange - Seth Rich - DNC Server connection. The fact that Assange was recently freed and now CrowdStrike is in the headlines cannot be coincidence.
Prediction:
I think Seth Rich / RussiaGate etc will come front and center soon.
There is a Sep delta with just one line - "Seth Rich". This is where we are headed perhaps?
There is also a July 28 delta for Awan (who is connected to House Server hacks, that happened parallel to DNC server hacks)
https://operationq.pub/?n=3532
And more importantly Awan is connected to "Saving Israel for Last"
And Awan is also connected to Clinton Foundation:
https://operationq.pub/?n=3125
Looks like everything is converging.
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Theres outages all over. In airports, railroads, stock markets, etc. Anything that use intenret. Businesses including banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline following a mass global outage.
The outage appears to be affecting Windows PCs globally
Carolyn Burgess: Planes have been grounded and TV broadcasters have gone offline as businesses worldwide grapple with an ongoing major IT outage.
Earlier on Friday, cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike experienced a major disruption, the company told NBC, following an issue with its latest tech update. The company is currently rolling up said update globally.
Separately, Microsoft cloud services were restored after an outage, the company said on Friday, even as many users continued to report issues.
Shares of both companies were losing ground in premarket trading on Friday morning.
7 MIN AGO Air travel passengers warned of delays Airports and airlines have been issuing advice to passengers as the global IT issues hit their systems, with many warning of delays.
London’s Gatwick Airport confirmed it began experiencing issues “early this morning” which were affecting “some airlines’ check-in systems, baggage and security, including eGates.”
“We are using our backup process, but some passengers may experience delays while checking in and passing through security. Passengers should still arrive for their normal check-in time, which is typically two hours ahead of the flight time for short-haul, and three hours for long-haul,” the airport said in a statement.
Australia’s Qantas said its flights were still operating with some delays.
Air New Zealand said it was dealing with a high number of customer calls and advised people to only contact customer service agents if they were due to fly within the next 48 hours. It said some customers would be experiencing payment issues, if they are customers of impacted banks.
Cathay Pacific said at 2:45 p.m. Hong Kong time (2:45 a.m. ET) that self-service check-in facilities at Hong Kong International Airport were not working.
“We ask all customers to check in online via our website or mobile app and obtain their mobile boarding pass before coming to the airport,” the airline said. It also advised that its flight booking service is currently unavailable.
— Jenni Reid
6 MIN AGO Sky News temporarily unable to broadcast Television channel Sky News was temporarily unable to broadcast live this morning, citing a “global technical issue.”
David Rhodes, executive chairman of Sky News Group, said shortly after 9 a.m. London time that live broadcasting had been restored, but “without full capabilities.”
Sky News and CNBC’s parent organization, NBCUniversal, are both owned by Comcast.
— Jenni Reid
The Dutch arm of Air France-KLM said Friday it has been forced to suspend “most” of its operation due to a global computer outage.
The outage has made it “impossible to handle flights,” KLM said in a statement. “We realize that, especially given the summer vacations, this is extremely inconvenient for our customers. We are working hard to resolve the problem.”
Earlier Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport said a “global system failure at Microsoft” had disrupted flights to and from the airport.
35 MIN AGO Microsoft says services ‘continuing to see improvements’ In an update at 8:55 a.m. U.K. time (3:55 a.m. ET), Microsoft 365 said on social platform X 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.” Issues are affecting apps including Microsoft Fabric, Teams, Purview, Defender, SharePoint and OneNote, according to the tracker.
— Jenni Reid
36 MIN AGO CrowdStrike, Microsoft shares lose ground Shares of tech titans CrowdStrike and Microsoft were losing ground in premarket trading, after both reported significant outages that rippled across businesses worldwide.
CrowdStrike stock was down 14.08% at 09:27 a.m. London time, with Microsoft shares lower by 2.12%.
— Ruxandra Iordache
London Stock Exchange Group on Friday said it is investigating technical issues after it was hit by a global IT outage affecting its pricing data and news communications.
In a notice on its website, LSEG said that it is “currently experiencing a 3rd party global technical issue, preventing news from being published on www.londonstockexchange.com.”
“Technical teams are working to restore the service. Other services across the Group, including London Stock Exchange continue to operate as normal,” the exchange group added.
LSEG’s Eikon data platform was also affected by technical issues Friday morning.
When logging into the platform, a notice at the top of the site reads: “We’re sorry for the inconvenience. You will need to restart workspace. If you need help, please contact us.”
LSEG was not immediately available to provide a comment when contacted by CNBC Friday.
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike suffered a major outage on Friday, the company told NBC, impacting businesses globally.
The outage resulted from an issue with the latest update, the company said. CrowdStrike is now in the process of rolling back that update globally.
— Katrina Bishop
1 HOUR AGO Microsoft reports disruption Microsoft’s cloud services have been restored after suffering an outage, the company said on Friday.
The U.S. tech giant said late on Thursday that customers in the Central U.S. region may experience issues with multiple Azure services and its Microsoft 365 suite of apps. This could include “failures with service management operations and connectivity or availability of services.”
On Friday, Microsoft said it determined the underlying cause and the majority of services were recovered. However, the company said that some customers may still experience issues in the region.
“A small subset of services is still experiencing residual impact,” Microsoft said.
— Arjun Kharpal
Great now Down Detector website shows the biggest companies using Crowdstrike. Expect isolated attacks on those specific companies. BHs just got a devining rod.
I have always dreamt of this day ever since I started hating Microsoft like 3 decades ago.
I KNOW EXACTLY what you are feeling...I've had to use Microsoft since Windows 1.0 then 3.1!!!!!
I used to be a huge fan of PCDOS and MSDOC. But when Windows 1.0 came, I puked. And I have been puking every new release
Imagine being a redpilled developer who just hasn’t shifted off of it (yet).
Right there with you.