In Northern Australia, a network failure disrupted the work of government agencies

A large-scale network failure disrupted the work of public institutions in the Northern Territory of Australia, including hospitals, police, courts and schools.

Due to problems there were interruptions with telephone and Internet. Experts have begun to fix the malfunction, but the timing of the restoration of services is not yet known.

Deputy head of the Department of corporate and digital development Greg Connors said that the cause of the failure could be a malfunction in the network screens. According to him, the authorities are almost certain that the incident is not related to a cyber attack.

Digital systems have slowed down in government agencies, and some services have become unavailable. Authorities are considering switching to backup equipment, but that would require a 30-50-minute shutdown of government online services.

Earlier, on 8 September, a technical failure in the UK air traffic control system led to the cancellation, delay or rerouting of more than 2,000 flights. According to preliminary data of the National Air Traffic Control Service (NATS), the cause could be a software error that occurred during the processing of the request and violated the update of flight data. Restrictions on air traffic were in effect for six hours, but it took two days to eliminate the consequences.