Mass IT outage hits airports, businesses and broadcasters around the world [Video]

Major airlines, media organizations, businesses and police forces around the world are currently being affected by a massive information technology glitch caused by a problem with Microsoft cloud computing services early Friday.

Flights have been grounded in several countries and stores and broadcasters in several countries went offline as the outage affected Windows PCs.

Major carriers, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, all issued ground stops Friday morning citing communications issues. Delta has ordered a “global ground stop,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell, a member of the House subcommittee on cybersecurity.

Alaska State Troopers said in an update on Facebook just before 2:20 a.m. (ET) that 911 and non-emergency phone numbers across the state were not working “due to a nationwide technology-related outage.”

In Europe, Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport said there would be delays to passenger check-ins “because of a technical fault,” and Aena, which manages 46 airports in Spain, said“an incident in the computer …