ALBAWABA - Microsoft's global system was struck with an out of a sudden technical glitch today. This technical glitch caused a global outage that affected major banks, media, airports, airlines, payment systems in Australia and UK, and Sky News went off air.
Airports, banks, and media went offline
Microsoft, the American multinational corporation and technology company, announced taking urgent measures to face the major defects in its system. The technical glitch affected many companies and corporations on a very large global scale.
Several oil and gas trading companies in London and Singapore are still facing difficulties in carrying out transactions due to the Internet disruption, while Sky News, the British channel went off air as David Rhodes, CEO of Sky News, announced this morning.
Global IT outage hit Microsoft systems worldwide (Shutterstock)
It is worth mentioning that the global IT outage affected the aviation sector as well, as Spanish and Turkish airline companies announced many changes in their flights due to the glitch. About 20% of flights in the US got cancelled as well and Berlin Airport also suspended many flights until 8:00 GMT.
This global IT outage also affected the railway systems in Belgium and many other airports in the Middle East region.
Microsoft spots the reason behind the global IT outage
Microsoft reported investigating the reasons behind this sudden technical glitch that affected its applications and services worldwide. The company announced that it had identified the cause behind the global IT outage and is now working to fix it.
