Microsoft outage: A massive Microsoft outage on Friday (July 19) led to a widespread chaos and confusion all over the world, stemming from the cancellation of flights, banks being inoperational all of a sudden and media outlets unable to broadcast. Flight services were severely impacted as several of them grounded across the globe, including in India.
Some news outlets in the UK including CBBC (the broadcaster's children's channel) and Sky News were impacted as the outage forced them to go off air. However, it was later reported that Sky News came back on air after a period of time. "Sorry! Something’s gone wrong," a message reads when tuning in. "While we fix it, please go to BBC iPlayer."
News outlets in Australia — including the ABC and Sky News — were unable to broadcast on their TV and radio channels, and reported sudden shutdowns of Windows-based computers.
Here's the list of broadcasters that went offline
- CBBC, an affiliate of BBC News
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
- Sky News
- Associated Press
London Stock Exchange affected
The London Stock Exchange was affected by the global outage of the IT systems around the world, Sky News reported on Friday (July 19). According to a statement posted on the exchange's website early this morning, a technical issue was being investigated with the publication of RNS – the exchange's Regulatory News Service – announcements, the report stated.
Leading bourse National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday said it has not been impacted by the global outage of Microsoft systems amid reports of disruptions in functioning of stock exchanges in several countries. Several major oil and gas trading desks in London and Singapore were struggling to execute trades due to a cyber outage, six industry sources told Reuters. LSEG Group's Workspace news and data platform also suffered an outage, affecting user access worldwide.
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