A major outage hit several IT systems across the world, including India and other countries like Australia, Germany and other countries on Friday, affecting many critical services.
The outage is possibly due to the failure of CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity platform that provides cybersecurity solutions for Microsoft Windows.
In Australia, the outage affected disrupted banks, telecoms, media outlets and airlines. A “large-scale technical outage affecting a number of companies and services across Australia this afternoon," Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator said.
Emergency 911 services were disrupted in many parts of the United States, and non-emergency call centres were also not working due to the outage.
Britain's Sky News, one of the country's major television news channels, said they were unable to broadcast. "Sky News have not been able to broadcast live TV this morning, currently telling viewers that we apologise for the interruption," the broadcaster's executive chairman David Rhodes said on X.
A health booking system used by doctors in England has went offline.
Berlin airport has halted all flights until 10 am (0800 GMT) due to a technical fault. The airport operator said in a post on social media that check-ins were delayed due to the error.