The Crowdstrike outage affecting Microsoft computers worldwide Friday caused disruptions for at hospitals, airports and more across the Boston area.
Several hospital systems in the Boston postponed elective surgeries and medical appointments in the aftermath of the global outage, and many doctors were forced to work.
Here’s a summary of what’s been impacted:
There were long lines at Boston Logan International Airport, where dozens of planes were delayed or canceled personnel cited a computer issue.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement Friday that it is “closely monitoring a technical issue impacting IT systems at U.S. airlines. Several airlines have requested FAA assistance with ground stops for their fleets until the issue is resolved.”
Communication issues come less than an hour after Microsoft resolved its service management operations and connectivity issues that impacted several low-cost carriers.
The outages affected major companies, including Visa, Amazon, Delta and United.
It’s not clear whether the decision to delay new flights is related to that issue. However, …