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Major Global IT Outage Linked To Cybersecurity Company CrowdStrike Grounds Planes, Cripples Banks, Hospitals, TV Stations & Other Businesses

Written by on July 19, 2024

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A massive global IT outage is crippling businesses and making lives miserable.

If you’re a business that operates on Microsoft Windows-based systems, the past 48 hours have not been good for you, and your IT department is most definitely stressing out.

Banks, airports, TV stations, healthcare organizations, hotels, and other businesses were greeted by BSODs (Blue Screens of Death).

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What Caused The Global Disruption?

The outage hit computers running the Windows operating system and was the result of a bug in an update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.

In the early hours of Friday, companies in Australia with computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system began experiencing Blue Screens of Death.

Not too long after the issue arose, there were numerous reports of disruptions from the UK, India, Germany, the Netherlands, and the US.

TV stations like Sky News were offline, and US airlines United, Delta, and American Airlines issued a “global ground stop” on all flights.

CrowdStrike says the outage wasn’t malicious and, through its CEO, issued a statement on the matter.

Per Wired:

Hours after the issues started to emerge, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz issued a statement about the outages, saying the company has found a “defect” in an update for Windows that it issued. “This is not a security incident or cyberattack,” Kurtz said. “The issue has been identified, isolated, and a fix has been deployed.” In the statement, Kurtz confirmed that Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted by the update and said that its customers should refer to its support portal.

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