Computer malfunction has disabled the work of the New York Stock Exchange

A powerful computer system crash occurred on Wednesday in the United States.

The cause of the failure is called technical problems, but not cyber attack. CNN.

“The New York Stock Exchange suspended trading at 11:32 a.m. Eastern Time. This lasted about three hours,” the report says.

The source cites an internal technical issue as the cause of the problems, not “the result of a cyber attack.”

The technical cause of the failures was also confirmed later by the White House. At a regular briefing for reporters, White House Press Secretary Joshua Earnest said that "based on the government's current knowledge, the failure of the New York Stock Exchange computer network was not caused by malicious actors."

It is assumed that it occurred due to the update of the computer system.

In addition to interruptions in the work of the exchange, through computer problems on Wednesday were suspended flights of the airline United Airlines, there were also problems with access to the electronic version of The Wall Street Journal. There is an assumption that these cases are interconnected, but no official confirmation of this has been reported.