Friday, July 19, 2024

Worldwide IT Outage Attributed To Crowdstrike

A worldwide IT outage--which resulted in chaos in airports, delayed hospital procedures, and more--has been blamed on a end of week update pushed out to Windows machines worldwide by IT management software company Crowdstrike. The update apparently resulted in a "Blue Screen of Death" for millions of corporate Windows computers, resulting in a need for manually removing a file on every single computer impacted. The outage hit systems across the world, with critical systems impacted from Australia and New Zealand, to India, the UK, and the US, and beyond. Crowdstrike has offices in Irvine, and was founded in Irvine, but has since moved its headquarters to Austin.