Missouri government agencies affected by IT outage
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
State government networks have been affected by a global IT outage.
The Missouri Department of Corrections and Office of Administration each posted messages on social media pages Friday saying their networks were affected by the global outage.
A team was "working diligently at this time to bring our impacted systems back online," the Office of Administration wrote in a Facebook post. The office's IT team was made aware of the outage at 12:15 a.m. Friday, the post says.
The Department of Corrections said Friday that the outage was barring staff from logging into their accounts and using some web-based applications. The problem will affect the speed of communication with other government agencies and the public, the message says.
Some reports say the problem is also affecting license offices in Missouri.
The Columbia Regional Airport says all flights out of COU are taking off as scheduled.
On Friday morning, United, American and Delta Airlines asked the Federal Aviation Administration to ground all flights around the world due to the outage.
Mike Parks with the Columbia Regional Airport says fights are planned as scheduled but he is unable to speak on behalf of American Airlines.
According to the COU flight status page, no flights in and out of the airport have been canceled or delayed. The page shows a flight from Chicago to Columbia landed at 6:06 a.m. Friday.
The worldwide outage was reported Friday morning and is affecting airports, airlines, banks and other industries that use Microsoft-based services.
American cybersecurity technology firm, Crowdstrike, says it's responsible for the issues and is working on a fix.
However, the company says the outage is not due to a cyberattack but is rather an issue with software.
According to FlightAware, over 2,000 flights were delayed Friday morning within, into and out of the U.S.
