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JPMorgan says majority of ATMs operating normally amid outages

JPMorgan says majority of ATMs operating normally amid outages

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JPMorgan Chase said it is working to restore service to automated teller machines (ATMs) affected by a global digital outage while a majority of its ATMs are operating normally, according to an emailed statement on Friday. The largest U.S. bank declined to comment on how many of its ATMs were offline. It has 16,000 ATMs across the U.S. and 4,800 branches. Financial firms were among many snarled by a global digital outage on Friday that caused hourslong disruptions to computer systems at hundreds of companies. Bank teller stations were not working at at least two JPMorgan branches in New York, according to employees at different locations who declined to be identified discussing the outage. Both employees said they were unsure when their computers would be restored. Branches have remained open, and at the sites affected by the outages, customers were able to access banking services by making manual transactions with tellers or using ATMs, a source familiar with the situation said. Source link

Ukraine warns of outages as ‘massive’ Russian strikes target power plants

Ukraine warns of outages as ‘massive’ Russian strikes target power plants

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Ukraine on Wednesday warned of possible power shutdowns across the country after a “massive” wave of Russian missiles and drones targeted the country’s battered energy system. Issued on: 08/05/2024 – 15:18 3 min Moscow also said its forces had taken control of two more frontline villages, as it ups its attacks both on land and from the skies with Ukrainian troops struggling to hold the front line more than two years into the war. “On the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II, Nazi (President Vladimir) Putin launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. The intensified strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure triggered fresh warnings of blackouts and electricity rationing. “There may be power cuts for household and industrial consumers across Ukraine… due to new damage to the equipment of Ukrainian power plants caused by Russian strikes,” power operator Ukrenergo said.  Russia’s defence ministry said its strikes were in retaliation. “In response to the Kyiv regime’s attempt to damage Russian energy facilities, this morning the armed forces …

Social Media Platform X Back up After Outages, Downdetector Shows

Social Media Platform X Back up After Outages, Downdetector Shows

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(Reuters) -Social media platform X was back up on Monday after suffering outages earlier in the day, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users, showed 23 reports of outages in the U.S. as of 5:49 am ET (09:49 GMT) from 4,113 reports at its peak about two hours ago. X did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment. (Reporting by Surbhi Misra in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Akanksha Khushi; Editing by Sonia Cheema) Copyright 2024 Thomson Reuters. Source link

Major 911 outages in 4 states leave millions without a way to contact local authorities

Major 911 outages in 4 states leave millions without a way to contact local authorities

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Law enforcement agencies across four states were left scrambling following reports of major 911 outages that saw millions unable to contact authorities late Wednesday. Many of the outages — reported in Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota and Texas — were restored by the late evening. While officials haven’t said precisely what caused the outages, they come on the heels of a Department of Homeland Security warning of heightened cyberattack risks on 911 services as they moved to internet-based systems. So far, there’s no indication that the 911 outages overnight were caused by a cyberattack or other malicious act, law enforcement officials told NBC News on Thursday.  “We are aware of reports of 911-related outages and we are currently investigating,” the Federal Communications Commission wrote on X on Thursday morning. It was less than two months ago that a widespread AT&T outage left thousands without service across multiple states, and impacted some calls to 911 for hours, which the carrier said was likely caused by a process error — not a cyberattack. Local law enforcement agencies on Wednesday reported …

How Vietnamese are using e-scooters to save businesses from power outages

How Vietnamese are using e-scooters to save businesses from power outages

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Vietnam has millions of e-scooters and an unstable power supply. One might think that these two things signal trouble when put together, but here’s how some Vietnamese are using their e-scooters to improve stability of the electrical grid and help small businesses avoid blackouts. In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s most populous city, power outages are quite common. They’re often scheduled or announced ahead of time, but power outages do occur on a weekly basis, in various parts of the city. As a result, larger businesses will have a generator of some sort on hand to keep things running when the power goes out, but many Vietnamese have small, single-person proprietorships (think small shops, food carts and so on) that may not have the resources for something like that. But there’s an active and enterprising community of e-scooter users who are trying to offer a mobile solution to this problem – with the big batteries they carry around in their bikes. The initiative, called Re:Charge has been taken on as a grassroots effort by owners …

Ukraine reports outages after Russia hits electrical power facilities, including major hydroelectric plant

Ukraine reports outages after Russia hits electrical power facilities, including major hydroelectric plant

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A view of the damage after Russia’s air attack on a residential building, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Friday, March 22, 2024. ANDRIY ANDRIYENKO / AP Russia attacked electrical power facilities in much of Ukraine, including the country’s largest hydroelectric plant, causing widespread outages and killing at least five people, officials said on Friday, March 22. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said more than 60 drones and about 90 rockets were used in the attack. The attack came a day after Russia launched 31 missiles in a single attack on the capital. It was the largest assault on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure this year and one of the largest since the outbreak of the war, according to Ukrainian authorities. “Even last winter, attacks on our energy system were not as large as they were this night,” said the head of energy utility Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi. The attacks caused a fire at the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station, which supplies electricity to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s largest nuclear power installation. The main external power line to the plant was cut …

Facebook and Instagram Users Report Meta Service Outages

Facebook and Instagram Users Report Meta Service Outages

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Meta said it had resolved issues with its platforms, including Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram, after what appeared to be an hourslong outage on Tuesday. The outage appeared to have lasted about two hours. “Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services,” Andy Stone, a spokesman for Meta, wrote on X. “We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.” The issue appeared resolved for many users on Tuesday afternoon, but some still reported having trouble with the platforms. Around 10 a.m. on Tuesday, more than 25,000 users in the United States reported that they were having issues with Facebook, according to Down Detector, a website that tracks user reports of telecommunication and internet disruptions, compared to a base line of 17 such reports on an average day. By around 10:20 a.m., that number was up to more than 538,000 reports of trouble with the website. Around 76 percent of the complaints were about logging in to the …

UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hacked by nation state, as pharmacy outages drag on

UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hacked by nation state, as pharmacy outages drag on

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U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group said Thursday in a filing with government regulators that its subsidiary Change Healthcare was compromised likely by government-backed hackers. In a filing Thursday, UHG blamed the ongoing cybersecurity incident affecting Change Healthcare on suspected nation state hackers but said it had no timeframe for when its systems would be back online. UHG did not attribute the cyberattack to a specific nation or government, or cite what evidence it had to support its claim. A company spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment at the time of writing. Change Healthcare provides patient billing across the U.S. healthcare system. The company processes billions of healthcare transactions annually and claims it handles around one-in-three U.S. patient records, amounting to around a hundred million Americans. The cyberattack began early Wednesday, according to the company’s incident tracker. Change Healthcare has not yet disclosed the specific nature of its cyberattack. Pharmacies across the U.S. are reporting that they are unable to fulfill prescriptions through patients’ insurance due to the ongoing outage at Change …

AT&T Is Having Widespread Network Issues as Customers Report Outages

AT&T Is Having Widespread Network Issues as Customers Report Outages

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AT&T’s wireless network appears to be dealing with a major outage. The carrier on Thursday confirmed to CNET that it’s suffering from “wireless service interruptions.”  “Some of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning,” a spokesperson said. “We are working urgently to restore service to them. We encourage the use of Wi-Fi calling until service is restored.” Read more: How to Use Your iPhone’s Emergency SOS via Satellite to Contact 911 When on Wi-Fi, you can still make calls and send messages through services like Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime, and Meta’s WhatsApp. AT&T also offers Wi-Fi calling that allows you to place calls over a Wi-Fi network using your regular number if you already have the feature enabled on your device.  As of 11 a.m. ET, the service did appear to be returning for some. In an updated statement, the company said that service has been restored to 75% of its network.  “Some of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning,” the company said. “Our network teams took immediate action and so …

Mobile telecommunications outages reported in several US cities | Technology News

Mobile telecommunications outages reported in several US cities | Technology News

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Outage appears to be centred on AT&T, the largest mobile phone network in the US. Several United States cities have experienced cellular outages with thousands of users reporting disruptions to the country’s primary telecommunications services, including AT&T, Verizon and TMobile. AT&T, the largest US mobile phone company, was the worst affected on Thursday, with other companies denying issues, with other companies stating that any connection issues were not related to their own networks. More than 50,000 incidents were reported about 7am East Coast time (12:00 GMT), according to data from the outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The website showed that the impacted cities included San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Boston. By Thursday afternoon, AT&T said three quarters of its network had been restored. However, the Federcal Communications Commission said that it was investigating the incident, while the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it was working with AT&T to understand the cause. On X, the San Francisco Fire Department said the outage impacted people’s ability to reach emergency services. “We are …