The Great IT Outage Of 2024

This is bad... REALLY bad... we are seeing the biggest worldwide IT outage of 2024, and potentially of the decade... EVERYTHING is affected, including UK broadcasters SKY NEWS and CBBC! But it doesn't just stop there...

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[macra_]

I work in an IT company and by pure luck, we don't use anything CrowdStrike related for any companies we manage so we've managed to avoid it! But I feel so much for the IT people in the companies that are affected 😔

[mikepanchaud]

Luckily, Microsoft rang me up this morning and offered to fix my PC, as they were detecting hackers on my PC. I told them to go 😂

[friendlyotaku]

Pretty sure this is what people feared Y2K was going to be... 24 years later!!

[DanielHowarth]

In Australia our media networks have been posting memes about it to pass the time between reading news off paper notes

One network asked if anyone had the simpsons on tape, another wrote their apology on ms paint... we arent real in this country😂

[DanielHowarth]

Im in Australia and we lost our pay tv network, the public broadcaster (abc) and even had a radio network go completely dead for hours. The damage to our critical infrastructure was worse - At one stage we also had no functional fuel terminals and lost our interstate rail network entirely

[joeharley]

Me, a Linux user, who has the ability to manually update my system: “I fucking warned you lot, and you didn’t listen.”

The methods used by Crowdstrike and other Microsoft-like groups - including MS themselves - make situations like this harder to deal with than they *should* be. I’ve been saying it for years that a situation like this would happen for some piece of mission critical proprietary software and lo-and-behold years later I’ve been proved right.

[channel]

Having grown up in the 80's and 90's, I've witnessed the complete history of the wholesale shift from manual systems, to IT and online infrastructure running the entire world. I think an event like this should be a cautionary tale to have robust manual backup systems in place which can be instantly deployed as effective solutions to outages. When the simple act of buying groceries is rendered impossible, that should highlight the dangers of relying entirely upon IT. But the worrying thing is, I don't think we can actually reverse the reliance now. IT has perhaps mostly changed the world for the better, but we are losing control of simple tasks to being entirely dependant upon it.

[sasiuru]

You know it is bad when local small grocery shop keeper ask first when you step in to shop "do you know about that, that IT thing, that crashed. not yet affecting me...". And this is a small shop in a rural Finland, they are using tablet and some cloud based point of sale system... (owner knows everybody from this small "town" and therefore knows that I work on IT sector...)

Thats when you know that big heap of S has hit the fan. :D

[VillaFanDan]

I was watching the cricket on Sky Sports - and clearly they are having trouble getting access to wherever they store the video files for their adverts - as every so often, there will just been a black screen during the ad breaks for a few seconds before the next ad plays. It's actually quite nice to have a bit of quiet from the adverts lol

[BerserkSurvival]

Background in focus ✅
Foreground in focus ❎
the background is more important anyway lol

[robustreviews]

Purely in television terms, anybody older than about 30 will remember when this stuff was routinely played out from physical media which used to “shit itself” fairly often.

It’s not a great state of affairs, but the IBA used to just turn off transmitters for maintenance during the day.

In television terms, the fact that a serious breakdown occurs in the days that they are *so rare* causes people to pay attention points to how generally reliable the system actually is.

Even the 90s I recall the famous “this program will continue as sound only” or a wobbly breakdown slide and a harried sounding continuity announcer sounding more and more panicked as the minutes ticked by trying to ad-lib were pretty common events.

In television terms, actual loss of program is pretty rare today. I would suggest it’s greater that 99.9 “uptime” in modern parlance.

[picoultimate]

I heard about the outage from my grandmother this morning, but I wasn't affected due to not using Microsoft's online services as much as others. Still, it's awful how badly this has affected even the NHS. Fingers crossed the whole thing can be resolved soon.

[PelinalDidNothingWrong]

As an IT Guy myself, I feel sorry for the people working behind the scenes trying to get everything back up and running again. If any of them are reading this, good luck guys!

[robspereall]

Apparently the UK's train network was at a complete standstill on Friday... nothing to do to with the IT issue, just another normal day at the office as far as they were concerned!

[anthonyperkins]

If you rely completely on computers for broadcasting, with no backup to go to, do not be surprised when things like this

[Redrally]

Well done Delhi

My workplace got affected but had diversified the sources of tools and supplied software so we could still work.

[rackeyzun]

So urgent he had to upload a video at a time that isn’t 6pm

[MillywiggZ]

Holidays; airports/trains and kids TV go down just before holidays start in the UK.

They knew what they were doing hahaa!

[EseAgoaye]

This reminds me of when Sky Sports News abruptly went off air back in 2015.

[caseyf]

Mercedes's F1 Team is powered by Crowdstrike, and there's a Grand Prix this weekend 💀