Outlets, workplaces, transport and well being companies throughout Gloucestershire which might be reliant on Microsoft enterprise software program have been paralysed this morning by the “blue screen of death” as the implications of a USA IT outage ripple world wide.
Described as a “massive outage”, Washington-based Microsoft 365 stated it was investigating the issue and would “continue to take mitigation actions”. Right here within the UK, Downing Avenue known as an emergency Cobra assembly to coordinate stretegic response to the cyber meltdown.
Amid grounded flights and queues at Heathrow, Edinburgh and Stansted airports, Cybersecurity agency CrowdStrike, which provides safety to Home windows, is reported to have recognized a ‘content material replace’ on the root of the difficulty, inflicting Microsoft techniques to expertise outages all world wide.
Sadly Gloucestershire has not escaped the fallout.
Amongst casualties, the Aspen Medical Observe in Gloucester issued a assertion for sufferers saying: “Some of our NHS IT systems have been affected by the global IT issues. IT systems at a small number of GP surgeries are currently impacted.”
On account of the confusion, well being officers have been asking sufferers to contact the NHS solely in a case of emergency. The difficulty is reported to be widespread throughout the UK with GPs unable to entry affected person data.
Elsewhere, there have been stories of cost processing errors for electrical automobile charging leaving drivers struggling to proceed their journeys from Gloucestershire’s M5 Michaelwood Companies, whereas Nationwide Rail Enquiries issued a warning to travellers of “widespread IT issues across the entire network”.
With air visitors impacted from the outage, Cotswold Air Tattoo is reported to have been affected by the difficulty, however Punchline understands contigencies are being put in place for the continued occasion.
Gloucestershire Airport has additionally confirmed to Punchline that it’s working as regular, with no reported points.
