Internet outages hit Australian airlines, lenders and central bank

Australia’s central bank, the postal service and several commercial lenders as well as other companies grappled with internet outages on Thursday, disrupting customer accounts and financial transactions before some services were restored late in the day.

The Reserve Bank of Australia said on Thursday it was cancelling its operation to buy long-dated government bonds because of the technical difficulties.

“Due to technical difficulties, today’s RBA long-dated open market operations auction has been cancelled,” the bank said on its dealing page on Thursday.