Optus fixes outage, but more than phones need a restart
Following an Optus outage in February 2026, if you have more than just phones using Optus, you may need to literally turn it off and on again.
Tag: outages
What happened during the great AWS outage of 2025?
Apps stopped working and so did websites. Alexa was down and the internet seemed broken. Was it a disaster, and could it have been prevented?
Optus emergency network fails with dire circumstances
Three individuals have lost their lives due to an Optus network upgrade failure, the telco has noted, over 24 hours after it happened.
3AW Mornings: Monday after Crowdstrike
After the big IT outage of 2024, 3AW checked in with Pickr to find out how it went and what we should be concerned about.
ABC Adelaide Mornings: Crowdstrike’s aftermath and scams
Now that Crowdstrike’s failure has been addressed and is getting fixed, what’s next? Pickr joins ABC Adelaide to talk all about that.
ABC Canberra Mornings: what next from the IT outage
ABC Canberra Mornings: what next from the IT outage
With the massive IT outage in the rear view mirror, what’s next? Leigh Stark joins ABC to talk tech.
The major IT outage in July 2024 was big enough to affect nearly everyone, not necessarily because we all had computers affected, but because it affected other places. Supermarkets, airports, call centres, and more; if you had the misfortune of needing one of these on July 19 to July 21, you may have been impacted.
So what went wrong, and how can we be prepared if something like this happens again?
Pickr’s Leigh Stark joins ABC Canberra’s George Stynes to talk about what happened and whether you need an extra computer moving forward, among other things.
Check out ABC Canberra Mornings from 01.50 on July 22, 2024 — practically the beginning of the show! — where Pickr’s Leigh Stark joined ABC’s George Stynes to talk next steps from the Crowdstrike outage of 2024.
3AW Sunday Morning: after the outage
Over 24 hours have passed since Crowdstrike accidentally took out millions of computers. What have we learned, and could it happen again?
Crowdstrike drama set to lead to scams, so what’s going on
Over 8 million devices were affected by the Crowdstrike blue screen, but that’s not even the end of the drama, as scammers look set to take advantage.
ABC Melbourne: the day after the IT outage
One day after the biggest IT outage in history, ABC Melbourne checks in with Pickr’s Leigh Stark to talk what happened and what people can do.
Optus is having a bad day as mobile, internet sees outage
It’s not great news for Optus customers today, or even customers on Optus-based virtual operators, with no way of accessing anything.