On friday, a massive IT outage has caused widespread disruption across various sectors globally, particularly affecting aviation and financial services. The outage led to the grounding of numerous flights and halted financial transactions, creating chaos and frustration among millions of users in US, Philippines, UAE and around the world.
The UAE Ministry of overseas Affairs (MoFA) announced a international technical trouble impacting all electronic structures.
In a fb post, MoFA wrote: Please be knowledgeable of a international technical problem that has affected all digital systems of the Ministry of overseas Affairs.”
MoFA additionally advised in opposition to making on-line transactions till the problem is resolved.
The reason for the outage appear to stem at least partly from a software update for Microsoft Windows operating systems issued by cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike.
