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Internet chaos worldwide, banking, media and flights disrupted

Internet chaos worldwide, banking, media and flights disrupted

TV channels, airports and banks around the world have been blocked due to a massive outage causing Windows computers to shut down unexpectedly .

Sky News' morning show was not broadcast on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.

Downdetector, a website that monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft apps, banking websites and airline apps.

On Ryanair's website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early, blaming a "third-party IT issue which is beyond Ryanair's control and affects all airlines it operates across the network".

Online, users reported problems as far away as Australia, New Zealand, India and Japan, with the UK likely to be severely affected during Friday's rush hour.

Troy Hunt, a cybersecurity researcher, said in a post on X that "something super weird is going on right now" with individuals around the world complaining that their Windows computers were suddenly showing the "blue screen of death" and logging into recovery mode.

Cybersecurity engineers pointed to a problem with Crowdstrike, a piece of antivirus software, which appeared to be causing computers to crash.

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