Ausmumof3 Posted July 19 Posted July 19 There’s some kind of Microsoft outage going on that is affecting banks, supermarkets, flights, fuel, news outlets and emergency services here and possibly also globally. Hopefully it’s no big deal and gets patched soon, but just thought I’d share in case anyone wants to take cash or allow a bit of extra time in their day in case of disruptions. It probably got noticed here a bit earlier due to being middle of the day. 1 Quote
Ausmumof3 Posted July 19 Author Posted July 19 BNO are reporting that Delta, American Airlines and United are grounding flights (qantas and virgin are having major issues in Aus) Quote
Ausmumof3 Posted July 19 Author Posted July 19 Also possible 911 phone outages in some US states Alaska - Arizona - Indiana - Minnesota - New Hampshire - Ohio. Add Jetstar to the airlines offline here and people are unable to check out at some supermarkets without cash. Some internal hospital systems impacted but supposed to not affect patient care. It seems to be related to a security software called Crowdstrike and for some people rolling back to the last update is fixing the problems Quote
Bootsie Posted July 19 Posted July 19 There are IT problems preventing a UK station from broadcasting and impacting at least one train route in the UK. Air traffic is disrupted in Europe. Quote
Laura Corin Posted July 19 Posted July 19 UK pharmacy organisations are saying that they may not be able to receive new prescriptions from doctors. Quote
Ausmumof3 Posted July 19 Author Posted July 19 6 minutes ago, Laura Corin said: UK pharmacy organisations are saying that they may not be able to receive new prescriptions from doctors. Some pharmacies are down here - they are doing pickups for existing meds but no new prescriptions 1 Quote
Ausmumof3 Posted July 19 Author Posted July 19 Freight trains down in QLD. Washington DC metro apparently saying trains are suspended. Quote
prairiewindmomma Posted July 19 Posted July 19 Crowdstrike Falcon is the underlying issue—a security platform used by a lot of corporations. Apparently it’s causing bootloops. Quote
Katy Posted July 19 Posted July 19 Thanks for posting this. I don’t typically turn on the news first thing, but I do usually check email & the boards. This may have some pretty big impacts to our day. 1 Quote
Carrie12345 Posted July 19 Posted July 19 I just got up a few minutes ago, and my teen niece is supposed to be getting on Delta shortly to visit me! Fortunately, her flight is listed as on time! 1 Quote
Carrie12345 Posted July 19 Posted July 19 43 minutes ago, Carrie12345 said: I just got up a few minutes ago, and my teen niece is supposed to be getting on Delta shortly to visit me! Fortunately, her flight is listed as on time! Quoting myself. Flight is scheduled on time, but security is apparently a madhouse. They called for unaccompanied minors and she and my sister were taken right to the front! Extra money well spent. 7 Quote
saraha Posted July 19 Posted July 19 Dd23 said their office computers are working properly, but dh said theirs are all wonky. Crossed fingers they just cut him loose and he can have a long weekend Quote
prairiewindmomma Posted July 19 Posted July 19 Crowdstrike issued directions on how to fix about 5 hours ago by deleting a bit of code off the driver so hopefully everything is up and going soon. 3 Quote
prairiewindmomma Posted July 19 Posted July 19 It’s an interesting day to see who is running off computers from a fruity company and who is running Windows. Crowdstrike actually has awesome security abilties—this just goes to the vulnerabilities of a tightly integrated system. 1 Quote
Carrie12345 Posted July 19 Posted July 19 I spoke too soon. Once we left for the airport, flight got repeatedly delayed. Currently about 3 hours behind. So glad I picked the tiny “local” airport. Dd and I did a Costco run, lol. Quote
Terabith Posted July 19 Posted July 19 My husband works for a hospital as IT, and he’s trying to work on it. Are we sure this wasn’t an attack? Friend in social security says most of the federal government is down. This feels like one of those documentaries where someone talks about the problems with monoculture in farming. Turns out having the entire government and infrastructure using the same system might not be ideal. 3 1 Quote
prairiewindmomma Posted July 19 Posted July 19 It’s from a bad update to those using Falcon on devices using Windows. Falcon on apple = fine. Quote
kbutton Posted July 19 Posted July 19 1 minute ago, Terabith said: This feels like one of those documentaries where someone talks about the problems with monoculture in farming. This Quote
saraha Posted July 19 Posted July 19 Dh said some more programs have come back up at work, but still not everything 1 Quote
KungFuPanda Posted July 19 Posted July 19 The college where I work has some issues, but they didn’t affect Records and Registration, so my workday was unaffected. The VA systems seemed to be fine. Admissions and Advising took a hit. Registration opened for Con-Ed yesterday so we didn’t need more craziness. 1 Quote
Faith-manor Posted July 19 Posted July 19 Our son is in India again for his company, and was supposed to leave tonight. Thank goodness the customer asked to have him stay five more days because he is getting so many things straightened out for them. Otherwise, I think he would be stranded in an airport since his route is Pune, to Delhi, to Amsterdam, to Detroit all on KLM. I agree whole heartedly with the monoculture analogy. 3 Quote
livetoread Posted July 19 Posted July 19 My dh works for a local government. He said that anyone in the gov't building who turned off their computer overnight was fine. He, and anyone else who kept their computer on overnight needed IT to come and delete some part of the update. 2 Quote
Carrie12345 Posted July 20 Posted July 20 Everything went fine for dn’s delayed flight, but we REALLY lucked out. Every Delta flight to our airport was cancelled after hers, and no Delta flights were departing. At ticketing, people were being rerouted to other airports on other carriers for tomorrow night or later. I received an email saying that unaccompanied minor services wouldn’t be available until Sunday the 21st “which affects your flight”. But she was already here and isn’t leaving until the 30th, so… The line for American Airlines was WAY worse. 2 Quote
LifeLovePassion Posted July 20 Posted July 20 I emailed in a required document for my teaching license renewal and got an auto reply that they were down. Our state parks camping reservation system was down as well. 1 Quote
Brittany1116 Posted July 20 Posted July 20 I was traveling and had to go to a second gas station and pay cash for fuel. I know ppl in medine and ppl flying who were impacted today. 2 Quote
kbutton Posted July 20 Posted July 20 Emails to one of my kid’s Important Things were not going through. DH’s work was mayhem, but they brought a normally off-site radiologist on site to help with the mayhem. The parts of things that didn’t work were things that make the day go smoother (dictation) more than things related directly to patient care. I put off some stuff I was afraid I would have to do over (or worse, not know didn’t work out!) if I tried it today. 2 Quote
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