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Breaking Newscast: Super Massive IT Outage

Breaking Newscast: Super Massive IT Outage

Worldwide travel chaos after cybersecurity update hits IT systems

Newscast · BBC News

July 19, 202421m 42s

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Show Notes

Today, we’re looking at major IT outages that have hit industries across the world. More than 1,000 flights are cancelled. Banking, healthcare and shops are also affected.

Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike says a "defect" in one of its software updates hit Windows operating systems

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren and Sam Mclaren. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.