Worldwide Tech Outage Continues To Impact Airlines

It impacted over 8.5 million windows devices globally, causing chaos at airports, health care facilities, banks, and even 911 services.

A worldwide tech outage is continuing to affect many businesses including airlines.

Thousands of flights in the U.S. were cancelled this week as carriers work to recover from the outage that caused massive delays and left travelers stranded at airports around the nation.

Delta Airlines is reportedly the most affected. The airline canceled over 1,200 flights into, within or out of the U.S. Monday, and over 9,000 were delayed.

Delta passengers have been impacted by over 4,400 cancellations since Friday.

The outage is being referred to as the “largest IT outage in history.” It was prompted by a software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike for Microsoft devices.

It impacted over 8.5 million windows devices globally, causing chaos at airports, health care facilities, banks, and even 911 services.