Nationwide Lottery gamers have reported being unable to entry its app and web site after the group saying earlier it was investigating what was unsuitable.
Each its web site and app gave the impression to be offline for a lot of at the moment – a day after the worldwide IT outage led to widespread disruption at airports, companies, the NHS and broadcasters.
Downdetector acquired 1000’s of stories of outages starting round 8.30pm on Friday evening.
It’s unclear if the problems dealing with the lottery are related to Friday’s outage.
In a publish on X, the Nationwide Lottery mentioned: “We’re conscious that some gamers are having points accessing our web site and app.
“Apologies for the inconvenience, our group are at the moment investigating the problem to seek out out what has occurred.”
A spokesperson later mentioned the web site and app have been working once more, nonetheless many individuals continued to report points for hours after.
The worldwide IT outage that started on Friday morning was brought on by an replace from international cybersecurity agency Crowdstrike, which knocked many Home windows PCs offline with a “blue display screen of demise” showing on displays.
The corporate’s founder later confirmed it was brought on by a bug within the replace and never a cyber assault, as some had feared.
George Kurtz mentioned a repair had been rolled out, however it will be “a while” earlier than all methods returned. An trade skilled warned it might take “weeks” for a full restoration.
(c) Sky Information 2024: Nationwide Lottery web site and app goes down
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