{"id":5539,"date":"2024-07-20T15:08:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T15:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/national-lottery-website-and-app-goes-down\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T15:08:28","slug":"national-lottery-website-and-app-goes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.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>\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>the global IT outage<\/strong> led to widespread disruption at airports, businesses, the NHS and broadcasters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-outbrain\" data-target=\"\" data-widget-mapping=\"\" data-installation-keys=\"\">    <\/div>\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<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\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>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>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Lottery says it is investigating after users reported being unable to access its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}