National Lottery website and app goes down | UK News

Nationwide Lottery gamers have reported being unable to entry its app and web site after the group saying earlier it was investigating what was incorrect.

Each its web site and app seemed to be offline for a lot of right now – a day after the worldwide IT outage led to widespread disruption at airports, companies, the NHS and broadcasters.

Downdetector obtained hundreds of stories of outages starting round 8.30pm on Friday evening.

It’s unclear if the problems dealing with the lottery are linked to Friday’s outage.

In a publish on X, the Nationwide Lottery stated: “We’re conscious that some gamers are having points accessing our web site and app.

“Apologies for the inconvenience, our workforce are at the moment investigating the problem to search out out what has occurred.”

A spokesperson later stated the web site and app had been working once more, nevertheless many individuals continued to report points for hours after.

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The worldwide IT outage that started on Friday morning was brought on by an replace from international cybersecurity agency Crowdstrike, which knocked many Home windows PCs offline with a “blue display of loss of life” showing on screens.

The corporate’s founder later confirmed it was brought on by a bug within the replace and never a cyber assault, as some had feared.

George Kurtz stated a repair had been rolled out, however it will be “a while” earlier than all techniques returned. An business skilled warned it may take “weeks” for a full restoration.