Sasser’s ill effects include the following:
It shut down all of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) ’s satellite communication systems for hours.
It forced Delta Air Lines to cancel several trans-Atlantic flights.
Nordic insurance company If and its Finnish owner Sampo Bank closed 130 offices in Finland.
All of Lund University Hospital’s large X-ray machines were disabled for several hours, so emergency patients had to be redirected to a nearby hospital.
The University of Missouri was forced to shut its network from the Internet.
The British Coastguard disabled their electronic mapping service for hours.
Other affected establishments include Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Post, and the European Commission.