Huge IT outage affects global businesses
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: A raft of businesses and organizations running Microsoft’s Windows apps have been affected by a major global IT outage. Students in Bangladesh are continuing their blockade of roads across the country, in protest of a quota system on government jobs. You may think of Rome or Paris when asked about the café capital of the world – but China’s financial capital is becoming a new contender. At least that’s what Shanghai’s local government claims.
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| 0:00.0 | A Mass IT Outage Cripples Companies All Around the World, live from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.6 | This is the Marketplace Morning Report, Will Bain, Ian for Leanna Byrne again today. |
| 0:10.9 | Yes, payment systems in stores have been down flights grounded at |
| 0:14.3 | airports from Tokyo to Berlin and banks and stock exchanges have been amongst those |
| 0:18.4 | reporting problems accessing their systems this morning after what many believe |
| 0:22.2 | could be one of the largest |
| 0:23.2 | ever global IT outages. The BBC technology editor Zobe Klineman brought us the very |
| 0:28.0 | latest. Some people are saying it's the biggest global outage that we've ever seen. I think it's potentially early days to call it that, but it does feel that way, doesn't it? |
| 0:35.9 | Country after country, service after service, company after company. I think in some way it will probably |
| 0:41.8 | affect your life at some point today. |
| 0:45.2 | We are starting to understand a little bit more about what's happened now. |
| 0:49.8 | It looks like it was an antivirus sort of update that was pushed through by a company called |
| 0:54.2 | Crowd Strike. |
| 0:55.2 | There's lots of people reporting that it's reacted very badly, I think it's fair to say, |
| 1:00.2 | with devices running Microsoft software, which is of course loads of them because |
| 1:03.5 | millions of people and businesses around the world rely on Microsoft 365 to do their |
| 1:08.1 | sort of office admin work. So it is looking pretty widespread and you you know, often with these outages, |
| 1:14.2 | as soon as you've sort of spotted them, they fix themselves, |
| 1:16.9 | haven't they? |
| 1:17.2 | But that is definitely not the case here. |
| 1:18.9 | We're seeing more and more problems |
| 1:20.4 | as a sort of dominoes effect, still fanning out. |
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