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Another Cyberattack, Software Glitch, or Both?

Report from July 19:

Flights grounded:
American Airlines, United, Frontier, and Delta made a drastic move, grounding all flights.
The New York City the Metropolitan Transit Authority has also had its systems go offline.

Banking disrupted:
• Commonwealth Bank in Australia
• Capitec in South Africa
• Certain operations at Barclay’s in the UK
• Banks in Israel, which have not been named at the time of this post
Some of the issues have been the inability to use ATMs, access online banking, and self-checkout registers. As well, the London Stock Exchange website is unable to update.

911 outages:
Alaska, New Hampshire, Arizona. Downdetector has also noted a spike in reports about 911 services.

Medical services interrupted:
Health systems and hospitals around the world have reported issues with their systems as well. Israeli Health Services has reported problems and NHS has said that most general practitioner offices in the UK have been affected.

News broadcasts down:
In some areas, major mainstream media outlets are at a complete standstill.
Australian and British broadcasters SBS, Network 10, the ABC and Sky News Australia and Sky News UK were all taken off air.

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