Indian airlines, brokerages affected by global IT outage

A major outage wrought havoc on global computer systems on Friday (July 19) grounding flights in the United States, derailing television broadcasts in the UK and impacting telecommunications in Australia. – AFP

MUMBAI: Indian airlines and some brokerages faced technical and operational disruptions on Friday (July 19) amid a global IT outage, multiple traders and airlines said.

Several major oil and gas trading desks in London and Singapore were struggling to execute trades due to a cyber outage, six industry sources told Reuters. LSEG Group's Workspace news and data platform also suffered an outage, affecting user access worldwide.