The world had its three hours of madness early last Friday evening after a simple code bug hit cities worldwide, sparking a rolling global IT breakdown industry veterans say has been waiting to happen for more than 20 years.
For a while, it was unclear when the digital dominoes would stop falling and if the outage was but a passing cyber storm or something far more malicious.
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Tom Burton has held senior editorial and publishing roles with The Mandarin, The Sydney Morning Herald and as Canberra bureau chief for The Australian Financial Review. He has won three Walkley awards. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at tom.burton@afr.com
