US Airlines, Australian Banks, and Hong Kong Exchange Websites Down...Partial Recovery (Comprehensive)

Website Down Again After One Week... Cause Under Investigation
Reserve Bank of Australia Cancels Government Bond Purchase Due to Server Outage

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Suhwan] The websites of major U.S. airlines, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and Australian financial institutions were temporarily inaccessible for unknown reasons. Some sites have since been restored. This incident occurred again just one week after the global major news outlets' websites experienced downtime.

According to Bloomberg and Financial Review on the 17th, the websites of major U.S. airlines, leading Australian banks and exchanges, and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange were temporarily down.

Specifically, among U.S. airlines, the websites of American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, and Delta Air Lines were inaccessible for a short period.

These websites have now been restored.

Additionally, the website of Morgan Stanley's subsidiary E*TRADE and the Navy Federal Credit Union were also down.

Furthermore, servers of three of Australia's four major banks were down. Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, and Westpac were affected, and it is reported that their applications are currently inaccessible.

Besides these, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Macquarie Bank, and Virgin Australia Airlines' websites were also down.

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As a result, the RBA's plan to purchase AUD 2 billion worth of government bonds under its asset purchase program was halted. The RBA stated that the bond purchase operation scheduled for the afternoon was canceled due to a "technical error."

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange's website was also temporarily inaccessible but was restored within an hour.

The cause of the website outages has not yet been identified. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Southwest Airlines, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia have all stated that they are investigating the cause.

Earlier, on the 8th, about a week before this incident, a technical error at the U.S. cloud company Fastly caused major global news sites such as The New York Times, CNN, and Bloomberg to go down. At that time, not only these news outlets but also U.S. e-commerce companies Amazon and Shopify experienced website outages.

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