Worldwide tech outage affected town of Queen Creek

The massive global  IT outage briefly hit the town of Queen Creek.

At about 3 a.m. Friday, the town posted on X that it had been affected by the outage, however, 911 and non-emergency phone lines were not impacted and there were no known disruptions to essential services.

At about 4 a.m. the town reported that its IT team had been successful in restoring the town’s technology systems but it cautioned that there may be  “intermittent disruptions to some non-essential, third-party platforms (MyMeter & recreation reservations).”

Schools in the Queen Creek Unified School District have not been affected, according to the district's spokeswoman Amanda deKnight.

The tech outage has grounded flights, with banks and media outlets also knocked offline.

In a statement posted at 4:24 a.m. Friday, Sky Harbor Airport officials said that “a global technology issue is impacting some flights. Travelers should check their flight status before coming to the airport.”