Global outage hits cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike: Report

A cyber outage affecting Australian media, banks and telecoms companies appears to relate to an issue at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, a spokesperson for Australia’s home affairs minister said on Friday.

Crowdsourced website Downdetector showed outages at several banks and telecoms companies.

“I am aware of a large-scale technical outage affecting a number of companies and services across Australia this afternoon,” the office of Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator Michelle McGuinness said in a post on X.