Crowdstrike and Microsoft: What we know about global IT outage

The cause is unknown, but Microsoft says it is taking "Mitigation action" to deal with "The lingering impact" of the outage. Australia's home affairs ministry and American Airlines have both said the outage appeared to be related to an issue at global cyber-security firm Crowdstrike. A spokesperson for Australia's Home Affairs Minister said the outage appeared to be related to an issue at global cyber-security firm Crowdstrike. United Airlines told the BBC: "A third party software outage is impacting computer systems worldwide, including at United." European airports reported that the outage was causing delays, with long queues reported at London's Stansted and Gatwick and Amsterdam's Schiphol.

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