It is being described as potentially one of the biggest global outages ever experienced. The outages, starting Friday evening (NZT), have rippled far and wide, affecting New Zealand businesses, banking and businesses and international airlines alike. The cost will stretch into the billions of dollars, Griffin says, noting the outage exposes a major point of failure in our tech systems. Officials are working to ensure that impacts on lifelines services are minimised and national coordination structures are activated, if required.”Stuff reported Parliament’s tech systems, including phone lines, have been affected. Flights have been grounded in the US, airports internationally are reporting issues, and trains in the UK are affected.
