United Airlines was able to recover from their glitches within an hour of being down and all flights returned to normal.
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The United States Department of Homeland Security said there was no indication of anything “malicious” at the NYSE. The airline said the problem was due to a “network connectivity issue”. “We are working to resolve this and apologize to our customers for any inconvenience”. We’ll have a waiver on http://t.co/ufFoKFTNNe to change flights.
This is actually the second time in less than two months that United flights have been grounded because of a software glitch.
The stock exchange outage seemed, in the main, to prevent fearful investors from selling up in panic at the financial crises in Greece and China.
According to reports, an internal technical issue was detected – amid other cyber glitches that officials are investigating.
The exchange’s outage passed the three-hour mark midafternoon while other venues, such as the Nasdaq Stock Market, continued trading. Its issues coincided with technical difficulties on the Wall Street Journal’s homepage. Slate notes that there was a message on the site that read.
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“NYSE/NYSE MKT has temporarily suspended trading in all symbols”, a statement on the exchange’s status page read. “The full site will return shortly”.
