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Now trains are hit in Crowdstrike outage as ticket machines and scanners go down at London stations on one of year's busiest travel days - while families queue at Dover and 28,000 Brits battle to fly home with another 45 UK flights axed today
DAILY MAIL ^ | 20 July 2024 | EMILY JANE DAVIES

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; European Union; France; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2030; affirmativeaction; agenda21; cbdc; centralbank; crowdstrike; crowdstrikecrash; cryptocurrency; cybersecurity; dei; die; digitalcurrencies; diversity; europe; globaleconomy; greatreset; london; microsoft; scanners; secretservice; ticketmachines; un; unagenda21; windows; windowspinglist; woke; worldcomputercrash
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To: P.O.E.

ClowdStrike was the company that found Russia hacked the DNC server in 2016, which was nonsense.

They reportedly also operate Dominion voting software, but I am not sure that’s true.


21 posted on 07/20/2024 7:48:03 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Libloather; Red Badger; Liz; SunkenCiv; BobL; NicknamedBob

“Airport flights are the best.”

Yes, very true. Most airplanes not landing at airports arrive at their stop very quickly, but take forever to unload their passengers and transfer luggage for the next flight.


22 posted on 07/20/2024 7:49:28 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: george76

Sounds like CrowdStrike is the Secret Service of the cybersecurity set. All cyber, no security


23 posted on 07/20/2024 8:05:00 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: george76

This is a warning. Society better prepare better and look at safety-nets when the idea that the digital world could collapse and civil society right behind it is a grimpossibility.


24 posted on 07/20/2024 8:29:35 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: george76

Wait until every car is connected. Won’t that be fun.


25 posted on 07/20/2024 9:06:57 AM PDT by Organic Panic (SDemocrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: george76

Sabotage.


26 posted on 07/20/2024 10:46:00 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: fuzzylogic

Corporations are so dysfunctional these days it could be passive sabotage.

Highly experienced and knowledgeable disgruntled QC employee sees problem.

They decide to do nothing because they hate their boss or the company.

The next folks down the QC line are DEI and/or clueless...


27 posted on 07/20/2024 10:50:56 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Organic Panic
Wait until every car is connected. Won’t that be fun.

Hmmn. Some cars being sold with steer-by-wire. Computers control the actuators at the wheels. Gonna be amazing to see thousands of vehicles lose control!

28 posted on 07/20/2024 12:53:10 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
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