TNB Tech Minute: Alaska Airlines Resumes Operations After IT Outage
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 21 July 2025
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| 0:39.0 | Alaska Airlines has resumed operations after grounding its entire fleet for several hours on |
| 0:44.8 | Sunday evening. The airline said it experienced an IT outage and marks the second time in just over a |
| 0:51.3 | year that the airline has experienced such an outage. Alaska Airlines |
| 0:55.7 | had a similar problem in April of 2024, after issues with an upgrade to the system that |
| 1:01.3 | calculates weight and balance data for its flights. SSNC Technologies Holdings has struck a deal |
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| 1:22.6 | SSNC, which provides software for financial services and healthcare industries, plans to use cash on hand and debt to fund the deal, which is slated to close by the end of the year. |
| 1:34.2 | Plus, Microsoft has alerted customers to active attacks that are targeting on-premise SharePoint servers. |
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