Large banks, airlines around the world report online blackouts

Large banks and airlines around the world reported an online blackout on June 17. Commonwealth Bank, Australia’s largest financial company, told the AFP news agency that it was and many of the large banks had been affected.

Westpac and ME Bank also reported problems with their mobile applications or online banking products.

Anz Bank spokesman told AFP that the incident was “related to external providers” but also said that connectivity had been restored and the most affected service returned online.

Customers from several regional banks report they also go down.

Temptation was reported to start at around 2:10 a.m. Sydney time (0510 GMT) and apparently not limited to the banking sector.

Virgin Australia said “is one of the many organizations to experience blackouts with the Akamai content delivery system”, adding that the work is ongoing to prevent output about an hour from happening again.

Downdetector said a number of websites and US Airlines applications were also affected. Airlines to America, Delta, United and Southwest are among them, even though the four websites seem to function shortly after that.

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. Also reported to go down for a while.

Australia Post, postal postal services, also said several services exposed to “external blackouts”.

Earlier this month the main media and government websites, including the White House, The New York Times, Reddit and Amazon temporarily fell after errors with a cloud computing service provider quickly, which offered services to websites around the world to accelerate website loading time.

A series of high-profile hack-for-rental attacks have also left companies around the world anxious because of the risk of cybersecurity, although there are no indications the latest problems caused by evil actors.

Colonial pipes were closed briefly after the attack on May, and JBS, the largest meat producer in the world, was forced to stop operations in the United States and Australia.

The two companies reported to pay a ransom to get the operation again and walk.

Cybersecurity’s problem was at the top of the agenda when US President Joe Biden and his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin met in Geneva on June 16. Washington believes hackers who have extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from Western governments, companies and organizations operating from Russia soil.