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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.
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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.
“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.
Sounds like CrowdStrike is the Secret Service of the cybersecurity set. All cyber, no security
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.
Wait until every car is connected. Won’t that be fun.
Sabotage.
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...
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!
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