Australia: Several Australian institutions, including major banks, media outlets, and airlines, have reported a large IT outage.
Sydney airport has grounded flights, supermarket checkout lines are chaotic, and television networks are struggling to stay on air due to computer, graphics, and autocue malfunctions.
Just hours before significant effects reached Australia, a few US airlines also reported needing to cancel or postpone flights because of IT problems.
Although the exact reason for the outage is unknown, numerous impacted parties have connected Microsoft PC operating systems to it. Information vanished from departure boards at Sydney Airport. Budget airline Jetstar said it was unable to check people in or let them to board its aircraft due to a “issue with Microsoft” in an announcement to consumers in the domestic terminal.
Additionally, Virgin Australia informed its customers that there had been a “complete ground stop” of aircraft. Social media users have reported long lines and downed payment systems at Woolworths and other businesses.
Downdetector, an Australian outage website, displays issues that have been reported by a number of companies, including Google, Telstra, National Australia Bank, and more.
The phrase “we’re investigating an issue impacting users ability to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services” was uploaded to X earlier in the day in an official Microsoft 365 service update.
Australia’s cybersecurity watchdog issued a statement claiming that no evidence points to this being a cybersecurity incident.
They released a statement saying, “As of right now, we know that the cause of this outage is a technical problem with a third-party software platform that the affected companies use.”