Global Cyber Outage Causes Chaos: Airports, Banks, Hospitals, and More Affected.
Yesterday, at approximately 7 p.m. GMT, the world witnessed an unprecedented cyber outage, causing widespread disruption across various sectors, including airports, banks, hospitals, news studios, and even Disneyland Paris. The event, which has been described as one of the largest cyber outages in history, saw systems crash globally, with countless computer monitors displaying the notorious blue screen of death, synonymous with Microsoft system failures. The aviation industry was particularly hard hit. Airports worldwide struggled to update flight details, check in passengers, or print boarding passes. Some, such as Delhi Airport, resorted to manual processes, issuing handwritten boarding passes. Others were forced to cancel flights. In the United States alone, over a thousand flights were cancelled, affecting major carriers such as American Airlines, Delta Airlines, and United Airlines. The disruption extended to Europe, with Dutch airline KLM suspending most of its operations, Berlin...