Ladbrokes hit by global cyber outage

Finance News

Entain owned bookie Ladbrokes has been hit by the global IT outage apparently caused by a major upgrade issue at Microsoft’s cybersecurity partner Crowdstrike.

Ladbrokes Tweeted: “You might have seen the news about the global technical issue affecting airlines, banks etc. unfortunately we’re experiencing this too.

“We’re working hard to resolve the issue but don’t know when it will be fixed. Thanks for being so patient and apologies for the inconvenience.”

Among the institutions affected was national broadcaster ABC, which said that its operations had been disrupted.

Sky News also reported that it was off air on Friday morning, while Spanish airports and a Turkish airline also said they had problems.

“Our computers, our systems are down, all the things that make Sky News run down and indeed for many other major companies around the country,” correspondent Tom Connell said.

Australia’s largest bank, Commonwealth Bank, said some customers had been unable to transfer money due to the service outage. National airline Qantas and Sydney
airport said planes were delayed but still flying.

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