THAT AUSTRALIAN BANKING OUTAGE By for Giza Death Stars
Your local propatainment media outlet may not have talked about this story, but I thought I would, because there’s one line in this story as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald that caught my eye, and I hope it catches yours. In fact, there’s some irony here, because as I’m wont to do, I very often listen to a local talk radio station as I’m sorting through emails and selecting articles for the week’s blogs. Well, as I focus on this article shared by C.V. (thank you!), the radio show has on a guest talking about the wonders of Bitcoin and digital crypto-currencies in general.
So, here’s the story: there was a rather large banking outage in Australia recently, as reported in the following article by the Sydney newspaper:
‘Widespread impact’: Banks back online after nationwide tech outage
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Note that the article is unusually ambiguous as to the nature of what it’s calling an “outage” (as opposed to the favored American term, “glitch”):
Millions of Australians were unable to access internet banking services after a major outage at a little-known technology company hit a number of large Australian companies, causing websites to crash and digital services to be cut.
Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and ANZ services were all disrupted for over an hour on Thursday afternoon, as were smaller lenders, including Macquarie Bank and ME Bank. However, NAB was unaffected by the outage, which prevented customers from access online banking accounts.
Later in the article, we’re given more “specificity”, if you want to call it that. The “outage” was due to a “tech outage”…
About one hour later, CBA said services were starting to “return to normal following a tech outage that had widespread impact across businesses”.
… and even later the “outage” has been transformed into “an incident”…
An ANZ spokesman confirmed the bank was hit by an “incident related to an external provider” that affected its core services, including its app and internet banking but said it was able to restore connectivity quickly. “Our teams are continuing to investigate and monitor the situation.”
… which quickly morphs into “an internal fault”…
Telco and banking industry sources said an internal fault at Cambridge-headquartered web services company Akamai, which occurred about 3pm AEST on Thursday, was the source of the problem.
… and just as quickly is tied to “an internal outage” of yet another incident:
Last week an internal outage at Fastly, another leading CDN, took down global news sites and retailers for almost an hour.
The article then ends by noting that since the covid planscamdemic broke, cyber attacks have been on the increase, referencing the JPS meat packing and Colonial Pipeline hacking-and-ransom attacks, making it possible that the “outage” was really a hack of some sort.
