CLEVELAND (AP/WJW) – Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is seeing ongoing issues Friday following a widespread technology outage impacting airports, banks and media outlets.
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said that the issue believed to be behind the outage was not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue affected Microsoft 365 apps and services, and escalating disruptions continued hours after the technology company said it was gradually fixing it.
Global outage not result of security incident: CrowdStrike
According to FlightAware, Hopkins has seen 120 delays so far Friday and 43 cancellations.
Cleveland Hopkins Airport wrote on X:
The airport’s online flight status check is down as well.
Time-lapse video captured by Flightradar24 shows the number of passenger flights across the country drop significantly from midnight to 10 a.m. Friday morning.
Fox 8’s Jessica Dill reported from the airport that United Airpassengers seemed to be the most impacted with some standing in line for more than 2 hours. She said passengers without a checked bag were …