A large number of businesses and organisations are reported to be affected in Australia on DownDetector — a website that monitors and lists tech outages.
There is this line chart which shows the number of complaints just surging astronomically. This morning there was something like zero complaints and in the past two hours that shot up to 1,500.
No groceries anymore
Australian media reported that a customer in Toowoomba discovered the outage as she headed to a supermarket checkout, where no eftpos machines were working.
One such customer said: “I'm lucky because I happened to have $100 cash that was birthday money. I was one of the lucky ones. A lot of people had to leave trolleys full of groceries, and walk out of the store. There was a lady in there who said 'what am I going to do?'
