How are you arriving at these judgements just out of interest?

Is there something you know?

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

The infrastructure I believe was not fit for purpose long before that. It can't have been removed since that happened.

Well it was working ok until...

BA says that: "The root cause was a power supply issue which our affected our IT systems - we continue to investigate this."

Or are they saying someone pulled the plug on their broadband connection

Problem ALL older companies face is that they run old systems and keep cobbling them to new systems, because it is simply to risky and massively expensive to invest in a totally new system to do it all. That will again be out of date in a few years time.
You only have to look at how costing and supply of government IT systems and thee issues that causes. Then look at a Co like BA and them doing the same....

Edited by deleted (Sun 28-May-17 18:59:26)

Perhaps their accounts dept system forgot to pay the leccy bill and...

My PSU fan is making a noise, maybe it was a similar incident?

In reply to a post by JohnR:

Problem ALL older companies face is that they run old systems and keep cobbling them to new systems, because it is simply to risky and massively expensive to invest in a totally new system to do it all.

It's not just companies that face that dilemma. So do countries. Think of the UK's telecoms network

But in this case I think we can blame BA for penny pinching.

In reply to a post by billford:

the NHS (amongst others) was clearly the victim of an attack

I disagree about that. The word 'attack' implies targeted action for which there is no evidence and which, given the different organisations that suffered, seems unlikely. The affected organisations had similar vulnerabilities which resulted in similar experiences. I don't believe that the person or people that released that Malware had any specific intention or expectation that the NHS would fall victim. In fact they probably would have preferred that such a high profile institution was not the target. Blackmailers prefer to operate in the dark where few people know about them.

I assume my OP is too complicated for you.

In reply to a post by JohnR:

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

The infrastructure I believe was not fit for purpose long before that. It can't have been removed since that happened.

Well it was working ok until ...

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I assume my OP is too complicated for you.

Twice so in your case.

You clearly are not "dealing with large mission-critical systems [and] able to suggest how BA have messed up so badly other than through penny-pinching and complete incompetence of their IT management"

I doubt you will get a reply from a large scale IT Admin on here as it could be their next job.

From what I gather, a lot of their IT systems have been outsourced to Tata Consultancy Services, an Indian company. Their UK staff are Indians on visas.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-3643...

Edit: it was mentioned earlier by someone, but here's the link.

Edited by Oliver341 (Mon 29-May-17 00:01:19)