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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
James Tapper and Mimi Ibrahim

NHS England warns of disruption next week as global IT outage wreaks havoc

Passengers orienting themselves at Gatwick airport yesterday
Passengers orienting themselves at Gatwick airport on Saturday; 408 flights were cancelled in the UK. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

The aftershocks of the Microsoft IT outage continued to ripple across the UK on Saturday as holidaymakers and patients suffered the brunt of the computer systems failure.

Customers experienced flight cancellations, faulty train ticket machines and failures in GPs’ prescription and appointment systems after a flawed security update from CrowdStrike, a US cybersecurity firm, crashed 8.5 million devices across the world running the Windows operating system.

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