Spanish airports resume normal operations after chaos caused by biggest computer outage in history
A small unintentional error led to computer shutdown historical. Fall Crowdstrike It left companies around the world on their feet, with normal operations disrupted. Now, days later, users and companies across sectors are beginning to recover from what is already being called the “largest computer outage” in history.
CrowdStike Software Update for the Windows 10 operating system, appears to be the source of chaos, causing computers to freeze in what is known as “blue screen of death“.
The calm after the hurricane has set in and Spain’s airports are suffering a hangover day today, but it is also bringing normality back after the chaos of Friday. The sector hardest hit air Transport causing incidents both at check-in and in network connections and information systems of airlines around the world. Major global airlines, including American Airlines, Delta and United, cancelled or delayed flights “all over the world”, leading to long queues at airports.
AENA On Friday, the company already said it had restored its core systems, with 5,600 flights remaining in service at all airports in Spain’s network and 400 cancellations reported by airlines, representing 6.5% of operations.
Passengers breathe a sigh of relief early in the morning after Spanish terminals return to work and the passengers are calm. Of course, on this day, there are still queues, as many of them decided to come a few hours early because of what might happen.
Today the crowd is moving towards claims counters and associations remember that passengers have the right to demand compensation. In the United States, the power outage has had a huge impact, especially on the aviation and logistics sector. More than 31,000 flights were delayed and about 3,600 were cancelled. According to real-time flight information platform FlightAware, more than 39,000 flights were delayed and more than 4,400 cancelled worldwide. Australian airports also reported that they were operating normally this Saturday.
But the problems spread to other areas, banks, institutions, organizations and hospitals also suffered. Even Paris 2024 Computer System This was partially affected and prevented the issuance of uniforms and accreditation.
IN Australia There have been incidents in the payment system of supermarkets such as Woolworths and banks such as NAB, ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and Bendigo Bank. In Japan, it has caused disruptions on the website of the railway system and affected cash registers at various businesses. Even hospitals in Israel have been affected, according to the local Times of Israel.
In that Great BritainThe London Stock Exchange, rail companies and Sky reported disruptions. Danish rail company DSB also had problems providing its online services.
In the U.S. health care sector, institutions such as the Kaiser Permanente medical system and several Houston hospitals have experienced disruptions in access to patient information, leading to canceled appointments and delays in important procedures such as transplants.
George Kurtzpresident of CrowdStike, assured that it was not a cyberattack. Computer experts explained to EFE that the latest Falcon driver update contained errors that caused Azure, the cloud computing platform created by Microsoft to create, test, deploy and manage applications and services using its global infrastructure, to crash.
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