Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world

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Live: Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
abc.net.au

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It's all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We'll see if that changes over the weekend...

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Big chunk of New Zealands banks apparently run it, cos 3 of the big ones can't do credit card transactions right now

It was mayhem at PakNSave a bit ago.

cos 3 of the big ones can’t do credit card transactions right now

Bitcoin still up and running perhaps people can use that

Bitcoin Cash maybe. Didn't they bork Bitcoin (Core) so you have to wait for confirmations in the next block?