IT outages have been reported across the globe as airlines, airports, banks, and media companies have suddenly experienced ongoing disruptions that have upended the daily lives of potentially millions of people, according to ABC News.
FAA ALERTS AND GROUND STOPS -
American Airlines, United, and Delta have asked the FAA for global ground stop on all flights, according to an alert from the FAA on Friday morning.
ABC News reports that the FAA is telling air traffic controllers to tell airborne pilots that airlines are currently experiencing communication issues.
Flights in the air will stay in the air, according to the news report, but no American, United, or Delta flights will take off.
In a statement obtained by American Airlines, they said, "We’re aware of a technical issue with CrowdStrike that is impacting multiple carriers. American is working with CrowdStrike to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and apologize to our customers for the inconvenience."
It is unclear how widespread the issue is but Melbourne Airport in Australia also said they are "experiencing a global technology issue" which is impacting their check-in procedures, according to the news report.
ABC News says Global IT outages have also been reported in many countries across the world including Berlin Airport in Germany, the London Stock Exchange, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Gatwick Airport in the United Kingdom.
"We're investigating an issue impacting users' ability to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services," Microsoft said in a statement released on social media Friday morning.
Crowdstrike, the U.S. cybersecurity company, has admitted to being responsible for the error and are working to correct it.
This is a Developing story.
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