3 major cyber outages on Wednesday | Michigan News 26

The Wall Street Journal Website was also briefly not working today.

We’re recovering from a network connectivity issue & restoring flight ops. “We’ll have a waiver on http://united.com to change flights”. The FAA’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center finally lifted the ground stop by 9:45 a.m. Eastern.

“NYSE/NYSE MKT has temporarily suspended trading in all symbols”, said the exchange.

“Wonder if tomorrow is going to be bad for Wall Street”, the Twitter account said on Tuesday, before the technical glitches.

The three technical issues don’t seem to be connected, and representatives from from all three were quick to point to hardware issues as the cause of the interruption and quell rumors of cyber-attacks. The interruptions came after worrying declines on China’s stock exchanges overnight.

According to the Huffington Post’s Jennifer Bendery, the Department of Homeland Security has issued a statement that there is “no indication” of a cyber attack behind today’s suspicious incidents.

Shortly after the outage, the NYSE tweeted that the issue was internal and not a breach.

The exchange’s outage passed the three-hour mark midafternoon while other venues, such as the Nasdaq Stock Market, continued trading. Slate notes that there was a message on the site that read.