2024-07-20
i weekend Front Page 20th of July 2024
The i weekend reports on a global IT crash affecting GPs, hospitals, airlines, railways, and banks.
The i weekend reports on a global IT crash affecting GPs, hospitals, airlines, railways, and banks.
The Guardian reports that recovery from Friday’s global IT outage “could take weeks.
Thousands of tourists and patients are facing disruptions as a global IT meltdown affects flights and NHS services at the start of the summer holiday season.
An IT company’s mistake has caused significant technical failures at British airports, hospitals, and GP surgeries, leading to severe delays and cancellations for thousands of travellers.
A global computer crash caused widespread disruption to transport, business, healthcare services, and television broadcasting, as IT systems worldwide experienced a meltdown.
A global IT meltdown caused significant disruptions by revealing the vulnerabilities of a cashless society, as computers crashed in shops, banks, and hospitals, with train ticket machines, flights, and supermarket payments all being significantly impacted.
A major global IT crash caused by a faulty software update has severely impacted hospitals, GPs, banks, airlines, and train services, leading to cancellations, delays, and disruption of essential services.
A significant global meltdown affected various services including the NHS, flights, trains, doctor’s surgeries, shops, and banks due to an error made by an individual in the US who inadvertently pushed the wrong button, causing widespread IT system crashes and chaos.
A widespread IT outage has severely disrupted travel, financial and health services globally, caused by a software update issue linked to CrowdStrike, affecting Microsoft users and potentially taking days to fix.
A major IT meltdown, described as a “digital pandemic,” caused worldwide disruptions by paralysing systems, leading to the cancellation of trains, flights, and hospital appointments, and is expected to take days to resolve.