Tech outage updates

Tech outage updates

Hong Kong International Airport back to normal operations, Chinese state media says.

Hong Kong International Airport has resumed normal operations, Chinese state media said on Saturday, after a mistake in a security software update sparked hours-long outages in global computer systems. The massive IT outage on Friday affected numerous industries ranging from banks to media companies, and services have been coming back online after the outage was resolved.

Airlines’ passenger check-in systems, which had been affected by the global outage, have returned to normal, CCTV said in a Weibo post, citing Airport Authority Hong Kong.

The airport authority had said on Friday that affected airlines had switched to manual check-in and flight operations had not been affected.

Globally, 5,000 out of 110,000 scheduled commercial flights were cancelled on Friday.

Major US carriers restore some flight operations amid global cyber outage

Top U.S. carriers including Delta Air (DAL.N), and United Airlines (AAL.O), are restoring some operations on Friday after a technical issue related to an IT vendor forced multiple carriers to ground flights.

However, delays and cancellations were expected to persist throughout the day, as airlines try to fully recover from the impact of the outage that upended their flying schedules and affected thousands of passengers.

More than 2,200 flights were canceled across the U.S., with nearly 7,000 delayed, as of 1:23 pm ET on Friday, according to data tracker FlightAware.

Delta and United said they were resuming some flights but expected additional delays and cancellations. The airlines also issued travel waivers for impacted passengers.

The issue affected many separate systems, such as those used for calculating aircraft weight, checking in customers and phone systems in their call centers, United said in a statement.

Peer American Airlines (AAL.O), which had earlier issued a ground stop notice, said it had safely re-established operations. Budget carrier Southwest Airlines (LUV.N), said it was not impacted by the outage.

While American, Delta and United did not name the vendor, smaller carrier Frontier Airlines (ULCC.O), said a “major Microsoft technical outage” hit its operations temporarily.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said in an emailed statement it was closely monitoring the technical issue impacting IT systems at U.S. airlines and that several airlines had requested its assistance with ground stops.

Tesla halted some production lines due to global IT outage, Business Insider reports.

The company halted some production lines in Texas and Nevada due to the global IT outage, Business Insider reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Tesla told its staff Friday morning that it is “currently experiencing an outage with Windows hosts, servers, laptops and manufacturing devices where users are seeing a blue screen on their devices,” according to an internal email reviewed by Reuters.

“We just deleted Crowdstrike from all our systems, so no rollouts at all,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a post on social media platform X, without specifying which of his companies had taken action or elaborating on the impact of the outage.

“This gave a seizure, to the automotive supply chain,” Musk said, in a reply to a post by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the outage.

The automaker sent some production employees home early during the night shift at its Austin, Texas and Sparks, Nevada facilities, the Business Insider report said.

CrowdStrike said it was working with customers impacted by a defect found “in a single content update for Windows hosts.”