CrowdStrike global IT outage: Cobra system fired up after trains and flights disrupted
Whitehall crisis officials are co-ordinating the response to a massive IT outage. The Cobra system that deals with matters of national emergency or major disruption has been fired up, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden said. The outage was “causing disruption in the majority of GP practices” in England but there was no known impact on 999 or emergency services, NHS England said.
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00:00Hello, my name is Greg Wright. I'm the Deputy Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post.
00:05Here's the latest on a massive IT outage which has brought chaos to the global economy.
00:10Whitehall crisis officials are coordinating a response to the IT outage.
00:15The COBRA system, which deals with matters of national emergency, has been fired up, according to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden.
00:24Ministers are in touch with their sectors to tackle the fallout from the IT failures, with the Transport Secretary Louise Haig saying she's working at pace with industry after trains and flights ground to a halt.
00:36Major infrastructure was halted after computer systems were knocked offline and devices were showing the so-called blue screen of death, affecting key sectors across the country.
00:48The outage was also causing disruption in the majority of GP practices in England, but there was no known impact on 999 or emergency services, according to NHS England.
01:01My name's Greg Wright. I'm the Deputy Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post.