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Planes have been grounded as several airports are hit by a global IT outage, with Windows PCs shutting down and broadcasters and businesses also taken offline.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe cause of the outage is unclear, but American Airlines has told the BBC that its flights are not taking off due to an issue with Crowdstrike cybersecurity software.<\/p>\n
The BBC reports that two hospitals in Germany has cancelled non-emergency operations<\/strong><\/p>\nThe two hospitals in the northern German cities of Luebeck and Kiel have cancelled elective operations scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n
Patient care and emergency services will go ahead as normal, the University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein added.<\/p>\n
Paris Olympics IT systems affectedpublished at 09:40<\/h3>\n
The organising committee for the Paris Olympics says its IT operations have also been impacted.<\/p>\n
But \u2013 with just a week to go before the Games begin \u2013 the committee says it has contingency plans, according to Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n
What is the latest?<\/h3>\n\n- A major problem with computer systems is disrupting transport, broadcasters, hospitals and other sectors across the world<\/li>\n
- Flights have been grounded and airports worldwide are reporting delays<\/li>\n
- American Airlines says\u00a0Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity company, is the source of the tech issues<\/li>\n
- In the US state of Alaska, police warn the 911 system may be unavailable<\/li>\n
- In Poland, the Baltic Hub terminal asks ships not to send their containers there<\/li>\n
- In the UK, rail companies are \u201cexperiencing widespread IT issues\u201d and warning of delays<\/li>\n
- Some GP practices are struggling to access their records systems, which include online bookings<\/li>\n
- On TV, Sky News and CBBC have been off air<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
What could be behind the outages?<\/h2>\n
While the world gets to grips with this major outage \u2013 many are left wondering how and why this has happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although nothing is confirmed at this time, both Microsoft and Crowdstrike have said they are investigating issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Data privacy expert at law firm\u00a0Gordons, Lauren Wills-Dixon, says: \u201cWe don\u2019t yet know the cause of these outages, but it appears this is linked to Microsoft and Crowdstrike which would explain disruption across sectors and globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOutages can be created by several causes and Microsoft has named a \u2018technical issue\u2019 rather than a cyber incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll likely find out more as the hours progress, but this shows just how reliant we are on certain tech, how much trust organisations put in them and their security practices, and also the chaos that downtime can cause.\u201d<\/p>\n
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