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Australia is hit by massive Microsoft outage as major banks, businesses, Qantas, ABC and Foxtel are all struck by huge outages – and computers crash with the blue screen of death

Published on: July 19, 2024

By Charlotte Karp For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 06:44 BST, 19 July 2024 | Updated: 07:09 BST, 19 July 2024

A massive global Microsoft outage has hammered Australian companies including Qantas, the ANZ, MyGov, and Foxtel with computers crashing showing the ‘blue screen of death’.

About 48 services appeared on the website ‘down detector’ on Friday afternoon in an unprecedented cyber event.

Computers around the countries started crashing, with users posting photos of ‘the blue screen of death’ using online platforms that were still available.

Financial services include Bendigo Bank, NAB, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ, Bank Australia, St George, Adelaide Bank, Me Bank, Bank of Queensland and Visa have been impacted.

Services include MyGov, NBN, Centrelink, ASX, and Australia Post, along with a number of social media entertainment services including Netflix, Facebook, Instagram, X, Xbox, Google Cloud, Open AI, Reddit, Nine, Foxtel, and the ABC.

Vodafone, Optus, Aussie Broadband, iiNet, and Opticomm were among the telecommunications companies impacted by the outage.

The culprit appears to be global cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, which promises to ‘provide cloud workload and endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services.’

The software is used by a number of news and television companies – except Daily Mail Australia.

About 48 services appeared on the website 'down detector' on Friday afternoon in an unprecedented cyber event (pictured)

About 48 services appeared on the website ‘down detector’ on Friday afternoon in an unprecedented cyber event (pictured)

Outages have caused major delays at shopping centres and supermarkets like Woolworths, as customers are unable to pay for their shopping.

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Australia is hit by massive Microsoft outage as major banks, businesses, Qantas, ABC and Foxtel are all struck by huge outages – and computers crash with the blue screen of death

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Australia is hit by massive Microsoft outage as major banks, businesses, Qantas, ABC and Foxtel are all struck by huge outages – and computers crash with the blue screen of death