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Nationwide IT Outage

LTT1 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:38:57 GMT

When I went to pick up my RX at the local grocery store / Pharmacy, there was a note taped to the window:

"Due to the nationwide IT Outage, we cannot dispense your RX at the drive-thru window.

You are welcome to come into the store to pick up your prescription."

Then next, Ulta was experiencing problems with their computers too.

On line, I read about the airlines having chaos because of this issue.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

ROMARY — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:42:11 GMT

There is a rumor that it might allegedly be a global cyber problem.?

Airlines, etc.

I haven't kept up with any updates, though.

Let's hope for the quick best.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

beckyb1012 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:42:13 GMT

Several locations of our local grocery store Brookshire's as closed due to this. I just saw it on my local news website. What a mess.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

ahoymate — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:46:21 GMT

@LTT1 wrote:
When I went to pick up my RX at the local grocery store / Pharmacy, there was a note taped to the window:

"Due to the nationwide IT Outage, we cannot dispense your RX at the drive-thru window.
You are welcome to come into the store to pick up your prescription."

Then next, Ulta was experiencing problems with their computers too.
On line, I read about the airlines having chaos because of this issue.

Having to go into the store to pick up prescription is no big deal.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

Spacrazy — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:46:36 GMT

@LTT1 Ohhh nooo! I heard bits and pieces on the news while I was cleaning but I thought it was just the airlines... good luck to us all!!!

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

bikerbabe — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:46:57 GMT

Faulty software update by cloud cybersecurity giant Crowdstrike crashed user systems.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

LTT1 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:47:43 GMT

@beckyb1012 @ROMARY

On Reddit some posts relating to these tech issues sort of explain.

Crowdserve provided a Microsoft update with a flaw.

Microsoft is used worked-wide.

The issue is not thought to be a malicious cyber attack, just release of an accidental flawed update.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

Tori3569 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:48:26 GMT

It's an issue with an IT update that didn't go through correctly. Many places were impacted including my husband's place of employment but strangely enough not mine.

A lot of things are starting to come back up now.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

LTT1 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:49:31 GMT

@ahoymate

I agree with you.

My post was not meant to be a complaint

just a factual statement.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

RetRN — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:51:38 GMT

Banks, hospitals, pharmacies, airlines, social security offices, FedEx, and on and on it goes. This is now the way of the world and will continue to happen.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

SilleeMee — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:01:45 GMT

The outage problem has been all over the news on every news station. Last I heard CrowdStrike software company has found a fix and has launched it. So it's just a matter of time before things return to normal.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

Alsace Gal — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:04:25 GMT

@LTT1

Before 5am at PST, I was at the drive thru at Starbucks, she ran my rewards card through and all was fine. I decided to add $$ to it with my debit card and she told me she couldn't complete the transaction. She mentioned Microsoft was down and I would be the last customer for a while.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

On It — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:07:35 GMT

Starbucks was accepting cash only early this morning. They wrote the order on the cup. I came home to see what was going on and saw the flawed software mentioned. IT services have been merged like everything else. Not enough providers now to avoid the large scale events.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

LTT1 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:09:18 GMT

@Alsace Gal

Sounds like your visit to Starbucks at 5:30 AM put you right in the chaos first thing! LOL NOT FUNNY!❤️

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

Kachina624 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:23:54 GMT

@ROMARY wrote:
There is a rumor that it might allegedly be a global cyber problem.?

Airlines, etc.

I haven't kept up with any updates, though.

Let's hope for the quick best.

@ROMARY This morning they were saying it was a computer software problem.

I follow the goings-on in a remote village in Colorado. The county clerk posted she was unable to process any auto transactions. It must be nation-wide.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

beckyb1012 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:31:04 GMT

I saw this morning that travelers were stuck in airports do to some global glitch but when I read that hours ago I thought it was only air related.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

teganslaw — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:54:19 GMT

There are people who wanted to eventually have a cashless society. After this, it won't be happening any time soon, if ever.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

Mz iMac — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:09:46 GMT

MSNBC is reporting that the Microsoft OUTAGE is "worldwide" not just nationwide.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

icezeus — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:14:57 GMT

Yes, problems throughout the day. Although I believe it's starting to clear up. I went to the library earlier today to pick up a book. They had a sign on the door that computers for patrons use were down. I had a little difficulty trying to check out my book, they were about to resort to the paper method for me. Luckily, they tried two other computers and were finally able to proccess.

Earlier I was attempting to make my car payment online through the credit unions website. The payment would not process. I finally just gave up. I came back an hour later and I was able to complete the transaction.

Re: Nationwide IT Outage

SilleeMee — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:28:26 GMT

Not sure if this has anything to do with the outage but I'm getting flooded with spam phone calls today. Maybe the spammers are taking advantage of the situation.