Microsoft / CrowdStrike outage: all the latest news
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A global IT outage grounded flights and resulted in outages at the London Stock Exchange and other systems early Friday morning. Industries ranging from healthcare, banking, air travel, and others are struggling with a global IT outage that hit Microsoft Windows systems PCs and servers connected to the Crowdstrike security platform early Friday morning — and that could take a while to fully resolve.
CrowdStrike, which is a cybersecurity firm based in the US, said on Friday that a faulty update was the culprit, not a “security incident or cyberattack,” according to a post on X by CEO George Kurtz. Banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, and supermarkets had systems suddenly reboot to display a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error that might require a reboot into safe mode to fix.
Thousands of flights have been delayed or canceled and some businesses are now slowly beginning to come back online. Kurtz told NBC News that it “could be some time” before systems recover.
Image: Microsoft
A global IT outage grounded flights and resulted in outages at the London Stock Exchange and other systems early Friday morning.
Industries ranging from healthcare, banking, air travel, and others are struggling with a global IT outage that hit Microsoft Windows systems PCs and servers connected to the Crowdstrike security platform early Friday morning — and that could take a while to fully resolve.
CrowdStrike, which is a cybersecurity firm based in the US, said on Friday that a faulty update was the culprit, not a “security incident or cyberattack,” according to a post on X by CEO George Kurtz. Banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, and supermarkets had systems suddenly reboot to display a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error that might require a reboot into safe mode to fix.
Thousands of flights have been delayed or canceled and some businesses are now slowly beginning to come back online. Kurtz told NBC News that it “could be some time” before systems recover.