IT outage didn't affect government-hosted services

Monday, 2 September 2024 08:10

A worldwide IT outage only affected government services provided by others, according to the Cabinet Office minister.

Kate Lord-Brennan faced a question for written response from Rushen MHK Juan Watterson about the recent Crowdstrike outage which took down systems around the world in what's thought to be the largest-ever incident of its kind.

Miss Lord-Brennan said the July outage didn't affect services hosted by the government but an external supplier had been affected.

A number of Manx Care services were also knocked out by the issue.

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