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 to banking, air travel, and others are struggling with a global IT outage that hit Microsoft Windows PCs and servers connected to the CrowdStrike security platform starting early Friday morning.
According to Microsoft, the outage affected more than 8.5 million devices, which still represents less than 1 percent of the Windows systems in operation. It has now released a bootable USB drive tool that can help restore crashed systems.
CrowdStrike, which is a cybersecurity firm based in the US, has explained that a flawed sensor configuration update was the culprit, not a “security incident or cyberattack.” Banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, supermarkets, and even Starbucks had systems crashed due to the problem, and on Monday, Delta Airlines canceled over 600 flights while it continued to deal with the issue.
Read on below for all of the details about this massive global problem and what is being done to fix it.
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