Worldwide IT Outage Grounds Planes and Disrupts Airlines, Media, and Banks

Airlines’ operations in countries like Singapore, the United States and Australia have been disrupted due to a major global cyber outage affecting services.

The massive information technology (IT) outage, which began in the early hours of today, also affected banks and media outlets.

According to international media, several airports and airlines have reported issues with their IT systems, as outages spread.

Flights have been said to be grounded at Sydney airport, United Airlines has stopped flying, while the London Stock Exchange Group’s platform is reportedly experiencing outages.

The Sky News channel is also off-air due to the outages.

The disruption has been linked to a downtime experienced with Microsoft internet services and issues with Cloudstrike, a cybersecurity software firm.

David Rhodes, Sky News executive chairman, said the channel has not been able to broadcast live this morning.

“SkyNews have not been able to broadcast live TV this morning, currently telling viewers that we apologise for the interruption,” Rhodes posted on X.

“Much of our news report is still available online, and we are working hard to restore all services.”