# Cyber Blow-Ups **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 21, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyber-blow-ups/1024157 "2025-10-21T14:09:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyber-blow-ups/1024157/1 "2025-10-21T14:09:46Z")
I came in this morning to find my inbox full of Google Workspace Alerts. These are notices sent to domain administrators notifying us of application failures in Google and in apps associated with Google. I had to scroll to see them all. The first and foremost is that no teacher could sign into Power Teacher, which is the lifeblood of the online teaching system. Attendance, grades, history, communications, and scheduling all go through Power Teacher. I tried pretty much everything with no luck. Then I remembered that the particular error presented occurs when the user has no Global Identifier to connect their Powerschool account with their Google domain username. Thing is, they all have a Global Identifier, or they couldn’t have successfully accessed the system in the first place. Nevertheless, I tried a Hail Mary and deleted a Global Identifier, saved the setting, re-entered the Global Identifier, saved the setting, and tried again. It worked! My only conclusion is that, somehow, the Global Identifier was corrupted and had to be re-initialized. Only problem is that I’ve had to repeat the process 30 times. I live by the detective’s credo: “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” Can’t say that is a law, but the thinking worked for me in this instance. Now, on to all the other issues like Clever, Renaissance, Amplify, etc, etc. I can see this is going to be the day from hell. LOL ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyber-blow-ups/1024157/2 "2025-10-21T16:31:45Z")
Could you guys have been affected by the major AWS outage that lasted most of yesterday? Maybe there was some nightly sync that failed to run successfully because of that? > **[Multiple PowerSchool Products - Users are unable to access application](https://status.powerschool.com/incidents/pt6c0p4bhxx6)** > > PowerSchool Products's Status Page - Multiple PowerSchool Products - Users are unable to access application. We have a thread about that: [How has the Amazon webservers issue affected you today?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-amazon-webservers-issue-affected-you-today/1024130) ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyber-blow-ups/1024157/3 "2025-10-21T16:37:34Z")
If this is a general thread on cyber blow-ups, imagine getting to the airport for your trip to Rome to catch a cruise and everything is the [blue screen of death](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_outages) and no one can do anything. Then you remember you’re on Air Canada. The most shocking thing was that Air F U was the one airline able to adapt and we easily made our flight. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyber-blow-ups/1024157/4 "2025-10-21T16:52:27Z")
I believe you’re right! I doubt it was some cosmic coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyber-blow-ups/1024157/5 "2025-10-21T16:54:37Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Then you remember you’re on Air Canada. > The most shocking thing was that Air F U was the one airline able to adapt and we easily made our flight. Ah, “The Revenge of Air Canada”! LOL