CrowdStrike said this is not the result of a hack.
A look at the line of people waiting inside Seattle -Tacoma International Airport around 6 a.m. on July 19, 2024, as a result of a global technology outage. in a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world and highlighted dependence on software from a handful of providers. KOMO News has also been affected as its 11 p.m. Thursday show could not be broadcast and its Friday morning shows have experienced some technical glitches.
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said that the issue believed to be behind the outage was not a security incident or cyberattack — and that a fix was on the way. The company said the problem occurred when it deployed a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows.Global tech glitch grounds flights, disrupts banks and media worldwide"A global IT outage is impacting systems for some airlines that fly from SEA," the airport posted on X.
In a post on X, Paine Field in Everett said the "IT outage is affecting airline operations across the globe. Please check with @AlaskaAir for information regarding your flight. We request that you give yourself additional time for travel today as the airlines work to get you to your final destination."University of Washington Medicine and Harborview Medical Center said it "has been impacted and are fully operational.
Sound Transit said there has been no impact on light rail service and trains are running on schedule. Some athletes and spectators descending on Paris ahead of the Olympics were delayed, but Games organizers said disruptions were limited and didn't affect ticketing or the torch relay., which tracks user-reported disruptions to internet services, recorded that airlines, payment platforms and online shopping websites across the world were affected — although the disruption appeared piecemeal and was apparently related to whether the companies used Microsoft cloud-based services.
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