Airlines, banks and companies are affected

Technology disruptions around the world have resulted in flights being grounded, companies facing IT problems and customers not being able to access technology services. These are some of the companies affected so far:

United Airlines, Delta Airlines and American Airlines

They have suspended all their flights. The Federal Aviation Administration cited communications problems and did not say how long the planes would remain “on the ground.”

Allegiant Airlines flights They too have been left on the ground. On Thursday, Allegiant said its website was unavailable because of a problem with Microsoft Azure, the tech giant’s cloud software.

Microsoft This Friday it said it was investigating an issue that affected users’ ability to access several Microsoft 365 applications and services. This Thursday it said on its Azure status reporting site that the service was down for some customers in the United States and that it has determined the cause and is working to fix it.

Other international airlines, such as Virgin Australia and QantasComputers have been affected by the outages, and have said they continue to work but with delays.

Airports of the Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney Similar disruptions are being faced, although flights are arriving and departing.

Australian banking and telecommunications institutions such as ANZ, Westpac, Visa and Optus According to Downdetector, a website that tracks cyber outages, have also been affected.

Chinese Microsoft customers are seeing a “blue screen” with an error message, popularly known as BSOD (blue screen of death), Microsoft confirmed on Friday.

London Stock Exchange said its news service was experiencing “a global third-party technical issue” that was preventing news from being published on its website. He said the company’s other services, including the stock exchange, would continue to function normally.

Other companies affected include Australian supermarket chains, state police, its national broadcaster and New Zealand banks.