MANKATO — At 6 a.m. Friday, Mankato’s Pioneer Bank President David Krause was just arriving at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport for a 6:55 a.m. flight to New York.
“I came in the airport and saw our flight was delayed and the gate changed so I went to the gate and they announced that all Delta flights had been grounded worldwide and that a computer glitch had affected mostly airlines and banks,” Krause said.
“I started calling our team right away.”
Krause said a couple of software applications that help process loan applications were affected, but otherwise nothing serious at the bank.
“No customer information was compromised in any way and our customers have full access to their account information and their money,” Krause said.
Delta was back up and Krause was to board his flight at about 9:30 a.m.
The global computer glitch that started to hit late Thursday appears to have had some but not serious impacts locally.
“We had a little down time about midnight when this kicked off,’ said Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Cpt. Paul Barta about the county’s 911 system.
“Everything is up. We have plenty of backups.””
He said staff were having some issues with desktop computers Friday morning, but he said they were still able to use cellphones and email, so there were no serious issues.
A global computer glitch apparently triggered by software distributed by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused widespread global outages late Thursday and into Friday morning.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz confirmed Friday morning that his company was working to resolve the problem.
“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed,” he wrote on X.
The problem affected airline communications, causing the Federal Aviation Administration to ground major carriers in the U.S., including American Airlines, Delta and United Airlines.
MPR News reported that as of 7:15 a.m., Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was reporting more than 110 delayed or canceled flights. Delta, Sun Country, American and United flights were among those affected.
Delta grounded its flights earlier in the morning, though in an update just before 7 a.m. it said it had resumed some departures.