The National Lottery is 'investigating' aft users reported the website and app were not moving today.
It comes a time aft the planetary IT outage saw monolithic disruption astatine airports, bid stations, businesses and the NHS.
It is unclear whether the issues are related astatine this stage.
The National Lottery said connected Twitter/X: 'We are alert that immoderate players are having issues accessing our website and app.
'Apologies for the inconvenience, our squad are presently investigating the contented to find retired what has happened.'
File. The National Lottery said its squad are 'investigating... to find retired what has happened'
Thousands person already reported issues loading the website since Friday night
Thousands of radical person reported issues with the website aft receiving mistake messages loading the website.
A connection online read: 'Our online services are temporarily unavailable.
'Sorry astir that - we'll get you backmost successful the crippled arsenic soon arsenic possible.'
The app says: ‘Sorry, our app is incapable to load for you.’
According to DownDetector, signaling outages worldwide, issues person been ongoing since astir 9pm Friday.
The app has recorded much than 2,000 reports of the tract not moving for users astatine the clip of writing.
It comes aft a flawed bundle update by American cybersecurity institution Crowdstrike caused planetary disruption yesterday, causing chaos astatine planetary airports and NHS patients to beryllium turned distant arsenic outages deed GP surgeries.
IT experts were battling overnight to decorativeness bringing healthcare, fiscal and question companies' systems backmost online aft they were crippled by the faulty update aboriginal connected Friday.
George Kurtz, the laminitis and main enforcement of Crowdstrike, told NBC's Today Show helium was 'deeply sorry' and said the contented was 'very quickly' identified and 'remediated'.
He said the contented was caused by a bug successful a azygous update.
Issues were felt from India to the United States, Britain and New Zealand. Kurtz assured customers 'remain afloat protected' aft the outage.
Russian officials reported small disruption, informing against 'foreign bundle substitution'.
'CrowdStrike has not provided immoderate services successful Russia since February 2022,' Mikhail Klimarev of the the Internet Protection Society NGO told Reuters.
Russia has been heavy affected by Western sanctions since its penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022.
As of Saturday morning, the exertion was besides not moving for users
Disruption continued successful the UK connected Saturday, with immense jams amassing successful Dover aft flights were axed, leaving galore thousands turning up astatine bust ports.
Some 167 flights scheduled to depart UK airports were axed connected Friday, with others delayed, portion 171 flights owed to onshore successful the UK were cancelled, pursuing the method glitch.
Aviation analytics institution Cirium said 5,078 flights - oregon 4.6 per cent of those scheduled - were cancelled globally connected Friday, including the 167 UK departures.
Many volition not beryllium capable to instrumentality location until Wednesday aft the outage impacted arsenic galore arsenic 300 cardinal computers worldwide.
Experts person suggested the error, which deed Microsoft systems, volition outgo the planetary system trillions.
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