Global Internet disruption/Thousands of American travelers are still stranded
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency, according to CNN, following the global interruption of technological communication for the fourth consecutive day, major American airlines continue to cancel their flights; In addition to canceling and delaying flights, this situation has left passengers stranded at various American airports.
Delta Airlines, one of the largest American airlines, is currently facing a lot of pressure to return passengers and ” American Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called the speed of resuming Delta’s systems disappointing and the company’s CEO apologized to passengers.
According to the data of “FlightAver” website, on Monday, more than 1000 flights to and from America were canceled and More than 9 thousand flights were delayed.
Delta Airlines passengers have faced more than 44,000 flight cancellations since Friday, including There are more than 950 flights until Monday evening, which is the highest number of flights among airlines.
In the late hours of Thursday and early Friday, a faulty update of the Crowd security software The strike led to the shutdown of Microsoft Windows computers around the world, causing disruptions in industries ranging from airlines to banking and healthcare. . Microsoft announced a day after fixing the problem that 8.5 million Windows devices were down under the effect of this update.
Following this disturbance, the Internal Security Committee of the US House sent a letter to George Kurtz, the chief executive officer of Crowd Strike and asked him to testify before Congress about the global outage of IT services.
In the letter of the US Congress to Kurtz it is stated: Although the reaction Crowd appreciates the Strike and its cooperation with stakeholders, but we cannot ignore the scale of this event, which has been dubbed the largest IT outage in history.
A company spokesperson told about this: Crowd Strike is in contact with relevant congressional committees. Briefings and other interaction timelines may be disclosed at the discretion of Members. In the aforementioned letter, the chief executive officer of the company was asked to schedule a hearing for the cyber security and infrastructure protection committee on Saturday 4.
