SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — Whereas the world has gotten used to warnings about cyberattacks and the vulnerability of expertise, Friday introduced a distinct wake-up name – a reminder that it doesn’t take an attacker to deliver a couple of world meltdown.
An enormous and widespread expertise outage disrupted operations throughout a number of industries in a number of components of the world Friday, grounding flights and impacting well being care, banking, media, and authorities providers, in what some referred to as a “historic” breakdown, and the “largest IT outage in historical past.”