UK faces transport, finance, and media disruptions due to major IT outage; CrowdStrike works on software update issue.

Whitehall crisis officials work on IT outage impacting airlines, train companies, and banks, according to Cabinet minister Pat McFadden. The major outage disrupted transport networks, GP surgeries, and Sky News in the UK. US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike is working to fix the software update issue. Ministers are being kept updated and are in touch with their sectors to tackle the fallout from the IT failures.

July 19, 2024
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