Media outlets and major brands hit by IT outage

A number of big-name Australian organisations, media companies, and brands have been impacted by a major IT outage around the country, and globally.

As reported by the ABC, the issue has come from Microsoft and third-party cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike.

The public broadcaster is one of many experiencing the major network outage as of Friday afternoon, with an ABC spokesman telling Mumbrella: “The ABC is aware of an external IT issue affecting some services. ABC Technology Teams are actively investigating the issue.”

Per The Guardian Australia, Microsoft has reported it is “investigating issues with its cloud services in the US”, while Crowdstrike has posted in its support updates that it has identified the issue, attributing it to changes made to its “content deployment” that has since been reverted.