National Lottery App and Website Go Offline Amid Global IT Disruption

Thousands of users reported issues accessing the National Lottery services following a major software update failure.

The outage began around 8:30pm on Friday, affecting both the app and website.
Over 2,800 complaints were logged by Saturday morning, according to Downdetector.
The disruption is part of a larger global IT issue linked to a botched update from CrowdStrike.
Experts warn that full recovery of affected systems might take weeks.
The National Lottery is currently investigating the cause of the outage.