Live: Major IT outage hits airlines, companies worldwide including Singapore, US and Australia

A global cyber outage is affecting major services such as flights, banking and company operations in countries such as Singapore, the United States and Australia. 

The disruption, linked to Microsoft’s Windows, appears to stem from an issue with cybersecurity software firm Cloudstrike. 

Cloudstrike acknowledged on Friday (Jul 19) that it had received “widespread reports of BSODs on Windows hosts”, referring to the “blue screen of death” commonly used to describe a system crash on Microsoft’s Windows operating system. 

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