AirAsia, Firefly, KTMB & More Malaysian Businesses Affected By Global IT Outage
The outage is reportedly linked to a global cybersecurity firm.
By Yap Wan Xiang — 19 Jul 2024, 06:22 PM
A global cyber outage has also affected several companies and institutions in Malaysia
According to Forbes, the outage today, 19 July, is linked to Crowdstrike, an American cybersecurity technology company.
The company ran an update and affected computers running Windows, causing them to crash and display the 'blue screen of death', a term used to describe a system crash.
The outage affected businesses and institutions worldwide, including airlines, banks, trains, telecoms, and stock exchanges.
The global cyber outage caused long queues at KLIA Terminal 2 today, 19 July.
Image via X via New Straits TimesIn Malaysia, several companies and institutions have announced disruptions caused by IT issues, but not all of them have attributed the problems to Crowdstrike or Microsoft.
Below is a list of the affected establishments, along with their statements:
2. Bursa Malaysia
According to Malay Mail, the stock exchange confirmed that FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI's live feed was disrupted today.
However, the problem was resolved several hours later.
"All FTSE indices & FBMKLCI index value feed has resumed since 3:21 pm," it said in an announcement.
During the disruption, trading was unaffected. Bursa Malaysia is currently investigating the cause of the outage.
