Emergency Cobra meeting held as NHS and airports hit by global IT outage

Emergency Cobra meetings have convened amid a global IT outage, which has disrupted airlines, railways and GP surgeries. The government specialists met as institutions worldwide reported computer-related disruptions. The issue is linked to a glitch in cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike’s technology. The issue emerged in an update file for Windows hosts. Services such as Microsoft 365 have been affected with users warned to expect “service degradation”.