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A power surge caused British Airways' IT outage
By Zach Marzouk, Clare Hopping published
News An engineer rebooted BA's data centre power in an "uncontrolled" fashion

British Airways website outage stops check-in for passengers
By Rene Millman published
News BA blames crash on IT database upgrade, but failover capacity questioned

Xbox Live, Office 365, OneDrive and Outlook.com go down
By Jane McCallion published
News Users were left unable to log into services for hours overnight

US voter traffic crashes New Zealand immigration site
By Dale Walker, Joe Curtis published
News The INZ website sees a 2,500% increase in traffic following Trump's shock win

DDoS attack cripples HSBC online banking
By Aaron Lee published
News No customer records compromised, bank says, after second outage of 2016

HSBC hails "steady return of service" to online banking
By Joe Curtis, Clare Hopping published
News But bank's technical problems are still ongoing

Planes grounded at Paris airport after Windows 3.1 issue
By Jane McCallion published
News But the French Ministry of Transport won't modernise system until 2017
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