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Australia, New Zealand Hit By Large-scale Technical Outage

A large-scale outage wrought havoc on IT systems, causing travel delays at Sydney Airport (Credit: AFP)

A large-scale outage wrought havoc on IT systems across Australia and New Zealand on Friday, causing travel delays, hampering television broadcasts, and forcing supermarket systems offline.

Australia's National Cyber Security Coordinator said the "large-scale technical outage" was caused by an issue with a "third-party software platform", allaying initial fears of hacker involvement.

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