Media outlets, including SPH Media’s BT and
The Straits Times, are also affected.
Singapore Post : S08 0% said on Instagram that it is currently “experiencing technical difficulties due to a widespread IT outage”.
Crowd-sourced outage website Down Detector showed that telcos Singtel and M1, a subsidiary of Keppel, had several reports of services being affected around 2.30 pm.
Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform Azure also had several reports lodged on the outage website at the same time.
BT has reached out to several companies for comment.
Overseas media outlets have reported that the outage appears to be caused by an update from US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. The Nasdaq-listed firm was down as much as 14 per cent in pre-market trading.
Earlier in the afternoon, Microsoft said it was investigating a cloud services outage that grounded planes and disrupted flight operations in the US.
Airports in major cities including Sydney, Edinburgh and Amsterdam are also affected, with boarding passes at some places being checked manually.