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74935 viewing Mass worldwide IT outage affects airlines, media and banks

The cause of the outage is unclear - but Microsoft says it's taking "mitigation issues".

First departure board information screens went blank - with at least one airline, Jetstar, announcing it could not check passengers in. About half an hour later Virgin Australia said there had been a “total ground stop” with “no flights going in or out”. In perhaps stereotypical Australian fashion, I overheard one passenger say he was a bit disappointed not to be squeezing in a couple of extra Friday night airport beers.

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