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Microsoft outage: Chaos as internet down and flights grounded around the world

Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive IT outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.

9:38AM Shares in cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike plunged as much as 14pc in premarket trading after the company said it was aware of “crashes” related to Windows computer, writes economics editor Szu Ping Chan. Air passengers in India are being given hand-written boarding passes as airlines grapple with the IT outage Credit: @akothari 9:19AM Microsoft 365 say they are investigating an issue impacting users’ ability to access apps and services. Troy Hunt, a cyber security researcher, said in a post on X that “something super weird happening right now” with individuals around the world complaining their Windows computers were suddenly showing the “blue screen of death” and entering recovery mode.

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