Massive technical failures are recorded all over the world

CrowdStrike. Photo: Getty Images

On Friday, July 19, companies around the world experienced an IT system outage. Airports, airlines, Windows, banks do not work.

In particular, they report problems with Windows, the operating system suddenly shuts down.

According to ABC News, due to communication problems, flights of major US airlines were suspended, including Delta, United and American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Allegiant and SunCountry. Turkish Airlines has also suspended flights due to a «major global disruption,» reports the Report.

As reported by Forbes with reference to representatives of the Minister of the Interior of Australia, the failure is apparently related to a problem at the international cyber security company Crowdstrike, and the national cyber security watchdog said that there is no information to suggest that it was an attack.

CNBC also indicates that CrowdStrike suffered a «major outage» due to a faulty update that affected businesses worldwide. Thousands of Windows computers have encountered the so-called blue screen of death (BSOD) while booting.

CrowdStrike said the Windows failure was related to its Falcon sensor, which is installed on computers and servers.

We will remind that in Ukraine «Nova Poshta» warned customers about a technical failure. The postal operator reported problems with some software updates.

Also, there was a failure in the work of the Vodafone mobile operator.