World wide IT dropout

My GP surgery has cancelled all appointments for today. You can't book one either. No access to patient's notes.

Times like this one wonders if we poasibly rely too much on technology.

It didn’t stop Mr Microsoft “Good afternoon, my names Harry…”
Aye right.

I know I was tongue in cheek we have not been able to see an actual doctor here for over two years.

Glad to learn it wasn’t malevolent. It’ll be repaired soon enough; meanwhile we just keep on going on!

Redhead56

Dr's have got to actually write out prescriptions what's the world coming too!

I can’t remember the last time I saw a written prescription. They are handled electronically these days and I suppose a GP would need to consult a patient’s computerised medical record before writing one out.

Dr's have got to actually write out prescriptions what's the world coming too!

JaneJudge

I hope my asda order goes through today

My Sainsbury order was safely delivered so hopefully you will be okay

NotSpaghetti

I suppose we are all "using technology" keepingquiet

My point- no outage here!

I hope my asda order goes through today

I think the world wide outage is down to Cloudstrike, a US company worth billions who supply cyber security software to Microsoft. It issued an update which has caused all these problems. The monetary implications will be immense. .

The NHS App isn't working. I don't know about others.

My poor brain went into overload at the word "Crowdstrike"
which I've never heard of and don't understand.

Time to put the kettle on, I think.

My monitoring app is now only showing 28 companies/organisations still in the red zone out of several hundred they report on. All my apps are working - bank, supermarket, WhatsApp etc etc. Not saying it hasn't been a significant outage but it's being talked up.

On a positive note we won't starve- Greggs is still operational!

I suppose we are all "using technology" keepingquiet

Another media storm from people using technology.

Yes pascal - I would think so. Apparently Crowdstrike is used for many "secure" systems.

My patient access is unavailable at this moment.. is this the same problem?

MaizieD

I've been feeling for a long while now that our complete dependence on IT is worrying. This outage doesn't inspire confidence.
What if it had been malicious?

I bet they won’t tell us if it was ! Wouldn’t be a good look from any perspective.

I've been feeling for a long while now that our complete dependence on IT is worrying. This outage doesn't inspire confidence.
What if it had been malicious?

I’d ring and check Ladyleftfieldlover . Probably by then things will be ok, hopefully. Things are coming back online here now.

🤞Ladyleftfieldlover

Daughter and I are hoping our flight will be leaving Helsinki at 4 pm local time!

It’s that sort of world now, any IT disruption can have serious effects, let’s hope it gets sorted soon.

I am not disputing that Microsoft went down for many key services obviously - but they all use this Crowdstrike - and we don't see that at home!

A major IT outage reportedly linked to the U.S. cybersecurity company Crowdstrike has caused chaos for businesses across the world.

The global software issue has forced many banks, airlines and broadcasters to go offline, and caused many Windows computers to crash suddenly.

In a post on its website, Crowdstrike said: "Crowdstrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows related to the Falcon Sensor."

Microsoft has said that this has caused "severe degradation" to its services, but has been implementing work-arounds and backups to get people up and running again.
Most of its services are OK now, they say.

So not Microsoft really. It is Crowdstrike apparently.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13650333/Sky-News-Windrush-TV-channel-technical-issues.html