A global tech outage is affecting operations across different countries including at British broadcaster Sky News, airports and Australian media and banks.

Berlin Brandenberg airport in Germany has halted all flights until 10am (9am Irish time) due to a technical fault, a spokesperson told Reuters.

Earlier, airport operator BER said in a post on social media platform X that check-ins were delayed due to the error.

The spokesperson did not give details about the nature of the problem, which comes amid reports of technical outages affecting some companies around the globe.

Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s busiest hubs, is being affected by a cyber outage, a spokesperson confirmed.

“The outage has an impact on flights flying from and to Schiphol,” he said, adding that it was not yet clear how many flights were affected.

Passengers at Edinburgh Airport in the UK were unable to use automated boarding pass scanners, and monitors at security displayed a message saying “server offline”, a Reuters witness reported.

Edinburgh Airport was checking boarding passes manually, the witness said.

A health booking system used by doctors in England is offline, medical officials said on X.

The London Stock Exchange Group said its RNS news service is experiencing a third party global technical issue, preventing news from being published on its website.

‘Large-scale technical outage’

A spokesperson for Australia’s home affairs minister said a cyber outage affecting its media, banks and telecoms companies appears to relate to an issue at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike.

Crowdsourced website Downdetector showed outages at several banks and telecoms companies in Australia.

“I am aware of a large-scale technical outage affecting a number of companies and services across Australia this afternoon,” the office of Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator Michelle McGuinness said in a post on X.

“Our current information is this outage relates to a technical issue with a third-party software platform employed by affected companies.”

“There is no information to suggest it is a cyber security incident. We continue to engage across key stakeholders,” she added.

Her statement did not mention Crowdstrike.

State broadcaster ABC said it was experiencing a “major network outage”, without giving a reason.

In a pre-recorded message played on Sky News Australia as regular programming was disrupted, correspondent Tom Connell said the outage was not believed to the result of a hack.

“Our computers, our systems are down, all the things that make Sky News run down and indeed for many other major companies around the country,” he said.

In the UK, broadcaster Sky News has apologised to viewers for an “interruption” to its broadcast and said it hopes to restore transmission shortly.