A woman walks past a Telstra store in Sydney’s CBD in Sydney, Australia. Telstra said some of its systems had been disrupted. — Reuters
SYDNEY: A large-scale outage wrought havoc on IT systems across Australia on July 19, with the country’s national broadcaster, its largest international airport, and a major telecommunications company reporting issues.
Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator said the “large-scale technical outage” was caused by an issue with a “third-party software platform”.
National broadcaster ABC said its systems had been crippled by a “major” glitch.
Photos posted online showed large queues forming at Sydney Airport, which told AFP some airline operations and terminal services had been affected.
Some self-checkout terminals at one of the country’s largest supermarket chains displayed error messages.
Telecommunications firm Telstra also said some of its systems had been disrupted. – AFP
