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Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading

Posted by samzenpus on from the skynet-has-become-selfaware dept.

mitcheli writes: In short order, some major outages occurred [Wednesday] morning. First United Airlines reported a system wide grounding of all flights due to "technical difficulties" with little details to follow. Following that, the New York Stock Exchange reported "technical difficulties" while suspending all trading. While initial reports on NYSE state that there is no malicious activity as a result of the outage, few details have been released at this time. "NYSE/NYSE MKT has temporarily suspended trading in all symbols. Additional information will follow as soon as possible," the NYSE said in a statement on its status page.

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  1. This triggers my WW3 theories. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is really scary, and it seems like a lot of people don't even think about it at all.
    Think about it. Some entity somewhere gets into multiple infrastructure systems, shuts down power, water, gas, takes down key sites like facebook and twitter so people can't communicate, stuff like that. Then, on top of that panic multiple attacks around the country at nearly same time.
    Just the confusion and panic alone would be scarring to most people.

    "Nah, that'll never happen", maybe not, but holy shit, imagine if it did.

    1. Re:This triggers my WW3 theories. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      takes down key sites like facebook and twitter

      If Facebook and Twitter are our key sites, then as a society we have already lost the war.

  2. Re:WSJ by freeze128 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are you sure it just wasn't unintentionally DDOSed by millions of day-traders wondering what happened to the NYSE?

  3. Re:Just the beginning by Perl-Pusher · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or they get fixed fast, you go to work only to find out your getting replaced by a foreigner , the jobs market will continue to suck but the numbers will be manipulated and the economy will tank just prior to the 2016 election or just after depending on who's turn it it is to flip the switch.

  4. Re:Patch Tuesday by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The NYSE uses Linux, so we can at least rule Patch Tuesday out for that one. Looks like it was just coincidence, caused by simultaneous cock-ups at different companies.

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