In Pictures: Major tech outage disrupts businesses worldwide, including those in Singapore
Airports worldwide, including those in Australia, the US and Singapore, appear to have been disrupted.
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Passengers queueing at Scoot check-in counters at Changi Airport Terminal 1 due to an IT outage on July 19, 2024. Changi Airport Group stated that due to a global outage affecting the IT systems of many organisations, check-in processes for some airlines at Changi Airport were being managed manually.
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Staff were also seen giving out drinks and snacks such as Milo and Oreo biscuits at the airport. Over at Changi Airport Terminal 1, passengers could be seen referring to flight information scribbled onto white boards.
ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN
Passengers queueing at Cebu Pacific Air check-in counters at Changi Airport Terminal 4 due to the IT outage on July 19, 2024.
ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN
The Housing Board said in a Facebook post that 185 carparks in its estates, managed by one operator, were affected by the IT outage on July 19, 2024. Contingency plans have been activated, with barrier arms of the affected parking gantries lifted to allow motorists to enter and exit. The carpark operator has also deployed staff to assist motorists.
ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
Some payment methods were unavailable on ComfortDelGro's ride-hailing app Zig, prompting a notice to inform customers that PayLah, Nets and Cabcharge were unavailable July 19, 2024.
ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI
A notice on a SingPost SAM machine at Block 165 Bukit Merah Central stating that the system is down due to a widespread IT outage on July 19, 2024.
ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
A check-out terminal affected by IT issues at a Coles store in Canberra, Australia, on July 19, 2024. Australian banks and media companies have been impacted by a major IT outage. According to the national cyber-security coordinator, the outage is related to a technical issue with a third-party software platform, and there is no information to suggest it is a cyber-security incident.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
With airline check-in systems down, some passengers at India’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad received their boarding confirmations via handwritten notes from airline staff on July 19, 2024.
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Passengers crowding departure counters of Cebu Pacific airline at Terminal 3 of Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, on July 19, 2024. A major outage wreaked havoc on computer systems worldwide, grounding flights in the US, disrupting television broadcasts in the UK and impacting telecommunications in Australia.
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Employees assisting travellers at check-in counters for Hong Kong Express Airways during a worldwide systems outage at Hong Kong International Airport on July 19, 2024. A series of technical glitches disrupted services at airlines, banks and the London Stock Exchange on July 19, in an unusually widespread cascade of failures that spread from the US to Asia after Microsoft reported an outage across its online services.
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