After the worldwide disruptions and technical problems with IT systems on Friday, the green light was largely given in Austria on Saturday. There are hardly any disruptions at airports anymore. Operations in the affected hospitals also went almost smoothly.
At Vienna Airport, 100 of the 780 scheduled flights were affected by IT problems on Friday – with some significant delays. Of these 100, 11 flights were cancelled, Vienna Airport announced on Saturday. Due to the disruption, airlines Ryanair, Wizz Air, Eurowings, Turkish Airlines and Vueling had to carry out their check-in and boarding processes manually. Everything was back to normal on Friday evening. On Saturday, Vienna Airport management thanked the staff for their efforts and the passengers for their patience.
Graz Airport: Delays, even on Saturdays
There were also delays at Graz Airport on Saturday. At Klagenfurt Airport, everything is back to plan. The situation in Salzburg was also relaxed. “Today is the day to face things,” said press spokesman Alexander Klaus, commenting on the situation at Salzburg Airport. The last flight arrived on Friday around 11:30 p.m., without luggage.
The next day, the main work consists of processing or shipping the remaining cargo. However, the airport itself was not directly affected by IT problems. This was only noticeable at destinations that were struggling with computer failures.
The global outage was also not noticeable in Linz. “We were not affected at all because there was no Eurowings flight,” explains spokeswoman Birgit Springer. According to the press officer, the system in Upper Austria was running “completely normally.”
Medical Association: “Failures show how vulnerable systems are”
In Austrian hospitals, everything was largely back to normal on Friday afternoon, after hospitals in Vorarlberg, Tyrol and Burgenland were hit by the technical failures. The Austrian Medical Association (ÖÄK) stressed on Saturday that the IT problems had demonstrated the importance of data security. “These large-scale failures have shown us how vulnerable our systems can be and how dependent we are on digital solutions,” said Harald Schlögel, Executive Vice President of the ÖÄK.
“Even though the problems in Austrian hospitals and ordinations have remained limited, every postponed operation is one too many,” said Schlögel, who called on the current and future federal government to establish the highest standards of data protection and data security for health data.
Global chaos caused
The cause of the outages was a faulty update for Windows users that had been deployed by the American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. The global impact was enormous: airlines and airports worldwide had IT problems, causing some take-offs and landings to be cancelled. Hospitals had to postpone operations, television stations could not broadcast and supermarket checkout systems failed.
Source: Krone
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