This global Microsoft Outage

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et

Any worries? It is chaos out there by the look of the news.

My experience is that I’m not able to work today and had trouble using my debit card this morning. The transaction eventually went through but it’s not showing on my account.

It shows the need for back up plans and procedures doesn't it?

I'm logged in for work and all seems to be working.

Was just coming on to start a thread after seeing the live feed running on the Guardian.

I guess it's an inevitability given our reliance on technology.

Not worried in the slightest. Everything seems to be working here.

Bit of luck you don't need a GP appointment, to be catching a flight etc then ....I'm alright Jack...

Are supermarkets ok?

Could this be a cyber attack? That's a dcary thought.

So far my work is operating as normal. ( NHS ) which is a reassuring!
It's not good though and shows our over reliance on tech

It's possible. At the moment it seems like someone fucked up an update but who knows.

Certainly cyber attacks are an ongoing huge threat given the world's total reliance on technology but also there's no room for incompetence in writing new software and all that shit when the consequences of messing up are potentially bloody awful.

Yes I'm worried about this.
A week or so ago Sainsbury's couldn't process card payments when I was in doing my shopping.. I had some cash on me that day but I'm off to the supermarket today and don't have any cash as back up .

The old saying "don't put your eggs in the same basket". Don't put all important functions in the same Cloud.

Desperately need a gp appointment and was told to "call back later to see if its fixed". But I can still log on for work.

And people laugh at me for insisting to pay in cash wherever possible.

I’m in New Zealand so it’s Friday night and the working week is over, but supermarkets, petrol stations etc are closing because of the outage. Most banks here are affected (three out of the main four) so no electronic payments.

In Gail's and EVERYTHING IS FREE!

I couldn't log in to Vanguard this morning but at the moment everything else seems ok

I work at Amazon and everything is down.

I'm at Paddington. Leon is cash only but Costa is fine

The news coverage isn’t really helping, it’ll make people panic - the issue will already be fixed but it’ll take a few hours to roll the fixes out to all services. Microsoft have shot themselves in the foot by not managing the messaging around this

Anyone know if the CHAPS payment issue will affect house purchases? I’ve not yet had a response from my solicitor but we are doing a simultaneous exchange / completion today… moving van ready to go 🙃😫

Indeed. I remember a thread on here recently and those if us who said we keep emergency cash for times like these, were laughed at and told the cloud was unlikely to crash. Oh dear.

Having said that, I have just transferred some money from my account to my son's account and it's gone though. Whether he can spend it though, is another matter 😜

Where do you keep your cash, under the bed, ir in a bank?

It wasn't a cyber attack, it was a dodgy code update at Crowdstrike. Someone is losing their job after this!

In our gun cabinet.

It will do if the bank of any of the law firms in the chain are impacted, or the firms themselves. Good luck. One of my first thoughts this morning was for people in your position.