Australia struck by major IT outage, hitting banks, media, telecoms

Australia has been hit by a major IT outage that has disrupted banks, supermarkets, telecoms, media outlets and airlines.

Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator said on Friday that it was aware of a “large-scale technical outage affecting a number of companies and services across Australia this afternoon.”

“Our current information is this outage relates to a technical issue with a third-party software platform employed by affected companies,” the agency said in a statement.

“There is no information to suggest it is a cyber security incident. We continue to engage across key stakeholders.”

IT security firm Crowdstrike said in a recorded phone message that it was aware of reports of Microsoft’s Windows operating system crashing.

Photos posted on social media showed blank flight information screens at Sydney airport and inoperable self-service checkouts at supermarket chains Woolworths and Coles.

Sydney airport said that flights were arriving and departing but that travelers should expect delays.

“We have activated our contingency plans and deployed additional staff to our terminals,” it said in a post on X.

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[PaulinAsia_]

What are the odds that the LNP will blame China or Russia.

[MaximaJ]

cashless society is a good idea they reckon

[travellerswill]

The whole world is laughing at us... You put all your chips in one basket and that's the wrong basket too

[saeedmazarei]

And they wanna go cashless what a joke😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[runtdmc]

Sitting in Australia this is first im hearing of this😊

[SaidulIslam-rerd]

A call to the world to save the students of Bangladesh

[sushantoraj]

Bangladesh is now out of any connections from the world please save my brothers and sisters

[woobykal]

Get rid of cash they said. What a fnkg joke. I finnished work today. Bought a 6 pack WITH CASH today walked straight out. Others has to be turned away because they only had a card. I dont feel sorry for them.

[leealex]

That's why I already said many years ago, Asia should use our own local tech companies or at the very least Asian tech to protect from all these problems

[RussianSpaceman]

It was happening in Ireland too on the same day.

[gumballdarwin]

What about Doha Airport, Bank and others?

[nic_cage]

They managed to do what hackers can only dream of doing, well done.

[bumberClart]

Botany Bay, it wasn’t okay1 we do remember ✌️

[ng.nahidgazi]

Hello world
Please stand with Bangladeshi students😢

[peterkirgan]

This is why you should keep a bit of cash on you @ all times!!

[jant]

Microsoft ‘update’. Phhh. They need to be sued.

[stevew]

Yup, and every day, more and more of our lives must be conducted online, often without choice, but yet this kind of thing is becoming a daily routine.

[Funkme]

Crash and control, fear and control. All aboard!

[mhabirkhan]

The condition of students in Bangladesh is very bad, please show it to the world😥🇧🇩😥

[DarkKnight-do]

Bangladesh Save students spam comments are irritating & annoying