Microsoft incident unrelated to cyber attack

The global IT incident that affected media, banking and telecommunications companies around the world on July 19 was not handled in the way one would expect a cyber attack, according to British government security sources.

A passenger in India boarded a plane with a handwritten pass due to a Microsoft incident. Photo: X

The unnamed source said security experts did not treat the incident as a cyberattack. Meanwhile, France's national cybersecurity agency ANSSI said there was no evidence that the incident was the result of a cyberattack. ANSSI said several teams of experts had been mobilized to determine the cause of the incident and support affected agencies and organizations in France.

Earlier, the Microsoft cloud service on July 19 had a problem that caused hundreds of flights to be delayed or canceled, while banking, media and other companies around the world were also forced to temporarily suspend operations. Microsoft's cloud service unit, Azure, announced that it was aware of the problem related to virtual machines running Windows and CrowdStrike operating systems . The virtual machines are currently in a reboot state and Azure said it is reviewing possible solutions to minimize the impact.

According to Downdetector.com - a website that specializes in reporting internet service failures, there have been reports of increased disruptions to services at Visa - a US multinational financial services corporation, security services provided by the US company ADT, online retail services Amazon as well as a series of airlines around the world. In the US, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that the country's airlines including United Airlines, American Airlines, along with Delta and Allegiant have had to temporarily suspend flights.

Airlines, rail and TV stations in the UK were disrupted by a computer glitch. Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport said the outage had also had a major impact on flights to and from what is considered one of Europe's busiest.

In Germany, Berlin airport notified passengers of technical problems that delayed and lengthened check-in procedures. Meanwhile, in Australia, airlines, telecommunications providers, banks and broadcasters were disrupted by a loss of access to computer systems…

MINH CHAU

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