How an interconnected world and an IT outage caused global chaos

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Published 2024-07-19
Few countries escaped the massive IT outage that crippled computer systems.

It underlined the extent to which technology underpins the global economy.

Travel, health, banking and commerce were all badly hit by the IT failure.

Adam Parsons takes a look at the global impact of today's meltdown.

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All Comments (11)
  • @MaksB.
    Amazing how something so relatively unknown can impact so many
  • @BareBare711
    75% of the world use Microsoft Windows…we should use this as a global warning but we won’t:(
  • @avayu2289
    This is why I still operate as much as I can in “brick and mortar”. Definitely not dealing in vapor coins……😅
  • Its time for microsoft to stop force update and change it to priority notification.
  • I missed my flights therefore missed hotel bookings, business appointments and lost of $$$$$$ who will refund me?
  • @temens
    Hackers are probably analyzing this event for opportunities.