Users of "Microsoft" (Microsoft) around the world - from Australia and New Zealand to the United States - reported large-scale outages, hours after the company announced that it was gradually resolving a problem affecting access to applications and services "Microsoft 365", reported the Associated Press, reported BTA.
The cause, exact nature and extent of the collapse are currently unknown. In a post on the social network "Ex" the company appeared to indicate that the situation was improving, but hours later businesses around the world were reporting escalating problems.
The site "DownDetector" (DownDetector), which tracks Internet crashes reported by users, reports increasing problems in the services of "Visa" (Visa), "AD Securities" (ADT security) and "Amazon" (Amazon), as well as with the airlines "American Airlines" (American Airlines), "United" (United) and "Delta" (Delta).
From Australia and New Zealand there were reports of service problems with airlines, telecommunications companies, banks and media losing access to computer systems. "Microsoft" did not respond to requests for comment.
Cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt reported that he is also seeing problems at global cyber security company Crowdstrike. (Crowdstrike). Australian telecom Telstra said in a statement that the global outage was "due to a global problem affecting both Microsoft and Crowdstrike". Among those affected in Europe are the airports in Berlin and Amsterdam, which canceled flights, in Brussels, Prague and Edinburgh, where separate systems are affected, the British television "SkyNews", the largest railway operators in Great Britain, the London Stock Exchange, the low-cost airline " ;Ryanair" (Ryanair), "Eurowings" (Eurowings), the Scandinavian SAS (SAS), as well as the airline "Turkish Airlines" (Turkish Airlines) which has problems with booking tickets and checking in for flights. "Lufthansa" also warns of possible problems. (Lufthansa).