London police and hospital service not affected by global IT outage
CBC
A worldwide global IT outage has caused delays for passengers, customers and businesses around the world Friday morning.
According to its website, flights at the London International Airport are arriving as scheduled. There is one delayed WestJet departure to Calgary.
London Health Sciences Centre said it is investigating the issue, but so far, no IT issues have been reported. All internal systems at the Middlesex-London Health Unit are operating normally.
The London Police Service said it is not affected by the IT issue and people can still call 9-1-1 to reach police in an emergency situation.
The City of London said it is not impacted.
Major banks and media outlets across Canada and the world have had their services interrupted. Though CBC Radio One continues broadcasting in southwestern Ontario.
So what's causing the problems? According to an alert sent by global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike to its clients and reviewed by Reuters, the company's Falcon Sensor software is causing Microsoft Windows to crash and display a blue screen, known informally as the "blue screen of death."
When will it be fixed? Crowdstrike's CEO said on X, formerly Twitter, the issue has been "identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed" but it's unclear how long that will take.
Porter is not the only airline that may be affected. A spokesperson from Toronto's Pearson Airport told CBC News the impacts varied "airline to airline," with Air Canada, Westjet, Sunwing and Flair's flights on track but several American carriers seeing disruptions.
At 7:30 a.m. ET, Pearson posted an update on X saying the American air carriers are seeing some operations resume.
Porter, meanwhile, is working on a plan for its passengers.
"Passengers cannot be rebooked while systems are offline. The rebooking process will take a period of time, with new flights confirmed over a number of days due to high passenger volume," Porter said in a statement.
"Further delays and cancellations are possible," it warned.