{"id":98366,"date":"2024-07-20T11:53:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T11:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/national-lottery-website-and-app-goes-down\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T11:53:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T11:53:28","slug":"national-lottery-website-and-app-goes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/national-lottery-website-and-app-goes-down\/","title":{"rendered":"National Lottery website and app goes down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/07\/1920x1080\/skynews-lottery-national-lottery_6633532.jpg?20240720120624&amp;resize=1920,1080&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"National Lottery website and app goes down\" title=\"National Lottery website and app goes down\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>The National Lottery says it is investigating after users reported being unable to access its app and website.<\/p>\n<p>Both its website and app appeared to be offline today &#8211; a day after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/global-it-outage-crowdstrike-issue-could-take-weeks-to-clear-as-full-impact-is-revealed-13181279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the global IT outage<\/a><\/strong> led to widespread disruption at airports, businesses, the NHS and broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>Downdetector received thousands of reports of outages beginning around 8.30pm on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if the issues facing the lottery are connected to Friday&#8217;s outage.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, the National Lottery said: &#8220;We are aware that some players are having issues accessing our website and app.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apologies for the inconvenience, our team are currently investigating the issue to find out what has happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The global IT outage that began on Friday morning was caused by an update from global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, which knocked many Windows PCs offline with a &#8220;blue screen of death&#8221; appearing on monitors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/who-will-pay-for-the-worst-it-outage-the-world-has-seen-13181296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Who will pay for worst IT outage the world has seen<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/from-banking-to-flights-and-supermarkets-charts-show-when-it-outages-peaked-across-services-13180932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charts show when outages peaked across services<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s founder later confirmed it was caused by a bug in the update and not a cyber attack, as some had feared.<\/p>\n<p>George Kurtz said a fix had been rolled out, but it would be &#8220;some time&#8221; before all systems returned. An industry expert warned it could take &#8220;weeks&#8221; for a full recovery.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/national-lottery-website-and-app-goes-down-13181706\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Lottery says it is investigating after users reported being unable to access its app and website. Both its website and app appeared to be offline today &#8211; a day after the global IT outage led to widespread disruption at airports, businesses, the NHS and broadcasters. 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