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Posted on 07/20/2024 6:24:52 AM PDT by george76
undreds of flights were cancelled at British airports yesterday due to the fault
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Travel disruption is continuing today as trains are hit in Crowdstrike outage with ticket machines and scanners going down at London stations.
The meltdown chaos comes after the world's biggest IT disaster struck, with thousands of Brits stranded abroad.
It happened on one of year's busiest travel days, with families now desperately queuing at Dover Port in an attempt to get home.
After another 45 flights were cancelled today, 28,000 Brits are fighting to get a seat on a plane.
Some passengers stuck overseas have been told they won't be able to get home until Wednesday at the latest after 50,000 flights going to, from or flying within the UK were hit by the disruption.
The catastrophic IT failure impacted 300 million computers worldwide and it could take weeks for all of them to be fixed.
Experts also warned the error by security firm CrowdStrike which hit Microsoft systems will cost the global economy trillions.
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Passengers struggled to buy tickets from ticket machines at London Waterloo Station .. with commuters faced with the 'blue screen of death'.
At Paddington Station, the QR code scanners stopped working, so ticket inspectors had to let passengers off the platforms.
And South Western Railway announced yesterday that the IT outage is having an effect on its 'customer facing services'.
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The meltdown affected planes, trains, hospitals, GPs, banks, and shops globally
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IT experts were battling overnight to finish bringing healthcare, financial and travel companies' systems back online
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organisation representing payroll workers warned that issues caused by the meltdown could delay people being paid.
CrowdStrike admitted responsibility for the issue which was caused by a buggy update to its Falcon security software.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Thank goodness for technology or we might have to someday rely on paper ballots to vote in person with id. /s
well, hopefully, this will drive them out of business. The certainly deserve it.
Rage against the machine that we are slave to.
Airport fights are the best.
Apparently this was all caused by a poorly designed software update. Another DEI failure?
Spot on
Ain’t technology grand Moe
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Central Bank Digital Currencies, crypto currency, CBDCs, controlled by the government and central bank, Indoctrination has begun..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4217464/posts
Thanks
That firm is a terrible choice for anything but lying for the DNC to cover up the killing of Seth Rich.
CROWDSTRIKE!!! a DEMOCRAT SUPPORTING COMPANY!! UGH!
Yes....and take them to SEASIDE!!
I know. It’s so beautiful. Sugar Sandy beaches. The sunset is amazing.
All they have to do is delete one file and their computers will run fine again. Don’t these companies have IT people?
It this a good time to bring up cashless societies?
Thank YOU...for your homepage too.
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