Figured a thread would be appropriate given the current state.
10 News First Afternoons didn’t air.
National news at 4pm for Nine.
Sky News repeating a loop of a reporter discussing the outage.
Foxtel channels are offline.
Major banks are offline.
Globally impacted media companies include News Corp groups, New York Post, Sky News Australia, ABC, Sky News UK, Harper Collins, as well as Dow Jones. Journalists are experiencing blue screens and rebooting of computers.
From TimesNow in India
#BREAKING: Widespread Microsoft outages have sent IT systems across Australia into a tailspin this afternoon, with banks, airlines, police, and other systems reported as being affected.
— 10 News First (@10NewsFirst) July 19, 2024
(And humble news social team admins too, evidently. We're doing our best here. More to come.) pic.twitter.com/IM0LZARu5v
I know someone who works at The Project who has said all their PCs are getting the BSOD on their Windows machines.
The Project at this point will be fully live - no prerecorded segments.
Great chat between Dougal Beatty and Mark Santomartino on Nine News Afternoon at the top of the bulletin.
National this afternoon.
Nine able to run with some other news and footage about Trump starting 8 minutes into the bulletin
From the thread:
Seven News unable to cross to reporters. News room “scrambling.”
Said they were planning to go national.
Coles is offline:
https://www.coles.com.au/
Australian cyber security company CyberCX says it’s aware and advising its customers of “an outage affecting organisations in Australia and New Zealand”.
“We understand that this has been caused by an issue affecting organisations who have installed Crowdstrike Falcon in their IT environments,” a CyberCX spokesperson says.
"Crowdstrike is a global cyber security company who provide detection and monitoring tools to cyber and IT teams.
"At this time, CyberCX is actively tracking the situation and are awaiting information detailing scope and recovery.
“We will continue to support affected customers as this incident evolves.”
Can anyone record what’s happening on radio?
a lot of silence from SCA, Nova, ARN according to their live streams! (Melbourne)
3MP, Magic, 3AW, SEN and RSN still streaming at least. Not sure about broadcast.
ABC News Radio now simulcasting ABC News (24)
https://www.digitalradioplus.com.au/listen.aspx?region=Melbourne
Jumped in the car just after 4pm and heard ABC Northern Tasmania but they were broadcasting south as well but I believe from the way they were talking they had only just come back online a couple of minutes earlier.
