Alaska Airlines, IT Outage
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The Federal Aviation Administration said a regional power outage disrupted telecommunications at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center, which forced postponing of the SpaceX Falcon 9 TRACERS launch on Tuesday.
A more detailed analysis is underway, the state said. Officials previously said they did not believe a cyberattack or software update was the culprit.
The incident's legacy extends far beyond CrowdStrike. Organizations now implement staged rollouts and maintain manual override capabilities.
In a statement to CBS News, the carrier said that, "At approximately 8 p.m. Pacific on Sunday, Alaska Airlines experienced an IT outage that's impacting our operations. We requested a temporary, system-wide ground stop for Alaska and Horizon Air flights until the issue is resolved.
A recent study found over a third of 2,232 hospitals faced major downtime from the 2024 CrowdStrike outage, pushing CIOs to rethink auto-update strategy.
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Alaska Airlines passengers are still reeling on Tuesday after a system-wide IT outage left thousands stranded at airports across the country.
The Pennsylvania 911 call system outage earlier this month was caused by a technical issue, not a cyberattack, according to a preliminary report. People calling 911 in Pennsylvania experienced intermittent disruptions on July 12.
Nearly 400 PG&E customers were impacted by a power outage in a portion of San Luis Obispo County Tuesday. The outage was reported shortly after 9 a.m. By noon, 394 customers remained without power in the area east of Santa Margarita Lake and south of Highway 58.