Major banks, airlines hit in new global online outage

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SYDNEY: Major banks and airlines were among businesses hit by a fresh global online outage on Thursday (Jun 17), with the problem traced to ...

SYDNEY: Major banks and airlines were among businesses hit by a fresh global online outage on Thursday , with the problem traced to US-based tech provider Akamai.

Australia's largest financial firm Commonwealth Bank told AFP that it and many of the country's major lenders had been hit.The outages, which began around 2.10pm Sydney time , also hit Australia's postal service and Virgin Australia. Westpac and ME Bank also reported problems with their mobile apps or online banking products, while customers for St George and several regional banks reported they were also down.READ: Backup plans in place for government websites, says Smart Nation group in wake of global Internet outage

A series of high-profile hack-for-ransom attacks have also left corporations around the world jittery over cybersecurity risks, although there was no indication the latest problems were caused by malicious actors.

 

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