On Friday, a significant, ongoing IT disruption disrupted hospitals, banks, airports, airlines, and broadcasters worldwide. The CrowdStrike issue impacted thousands of Windows PCs that are critical to many organizations’ internet operations.
The outage was caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which maintains security for a large number of Windows PCs and services worldwide.
In a post on X, Microsoft Regional Director Troy Hunt termed it as “the biggest IT outage ever”.
UAE Government Services and Flights Disrupted in Global Cyber Outage
According to Khaleej Times,
Online services of some major UAE government services were among those hit as a cyber outage paralysed major institutions across the world on Friday. Some flights and airport operations in the country were affected, too, but the authorities’ swift response cushioned the impact.
Soon after the nation’s cyber authorities alerted the public to the Crowdstrike glitch, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that some of their electronic systems were down.
It urged the public “not to make any transactions” on its online portals until the issue was resolved. Authentication services were among those hit, Mofa said.
Status of flights across UAE
Aviation authorities confirmed that the worldwide technical issue struck operations in some UAE airports and airlines; however, only “minor impacts” were recorded.
