📋 Major IT Outage Impacts Health Care, Travel Worldwide (AARP Article)

What You Need to Know About Friday’s Worldwide Microsoft Tech Outage.

 

The problem was faulty code, not a cyberattack.

 

By Edward C. Baig, Nicole Gill Council and Elizabeth Agnvall, AARP.

 

Friday’s massive global tech outage that paralyzed airlines, financial institutions, media outlets, health care systems and even the upcoming Paris Olympics, left many older adults fretting about what was happening and, more important, what to do next about their travel, doctor’s appointments and banking.

 

Some summer vacation plans were grounded. Scheduled medical treatments were suddenly postponed. Windows computers displayed the dreaded “blue screen of death,” signifying a system crash, or files in Microsoft’s cloud were unreachable.