Microsoft users worldwide report widespread outages affecting banks, airlines and broadcasters

Global IT systems outage affecting local services

Friday's global IT systems outage has been impacting services in Chatham-Kent, officials say.

Canadian flights, hospitals, border disrupted during global technology outage

TORONTO — A global technology outage grounded flights, disrupted hospitals and backed up border crossings in Canada on Friday, as issues persisted hours after problems with Microsoft services were said to be getting fixed.

The hospitals, airlines and banks affected by the global IT outage

A global IT issue on Friday caused widespread issues for airports, banks and hospitals.

UPDATE: The airports and airlines affected by the global outage

As of midday Friday, thousands of flights had been canceled globally, with chaotic scenes at airports across the world as passengers waited for updates.

Albuquerque Sunport says tech outage has impacted flights

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) –  The Albuquerque International Sunport says a global technology outage has impacted flights at the airport on Friday. The outage is linked to an update issued by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and affected customers running Microsoft Windows. As a result, flights were grounded around the world, banks and hospital systems went offline, and many other entities were impacted. Risk-averse organizations chose CrowdStri…

Global technology outage impacting B.C. hospitals

B.C. residents are being asked to avoid calling hospital switchboards due to a global technology outage. An update issued by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike is impacting computers running Microsoft Windows, disrupting hospitals, banks, airlines and businesses globally. Interior Health says the outag...