Crowdstrike outage sparks global chaos as airlines grounded. Hospitals, media, airports, 911 services all shut down.

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A wave of IT outages swept across the globe Friday morning, sending airports, airlines, banks and other institutions into a screeching halt as some Microsoft-based computers ceased to work.

CrowdStrike — an American cybersecurity technology firm that provides cloud workload protection, threat intelligence and cyberattack response services — said the outage, which sparked chaos for many, was not a cyberattack. Instead, there was an issue with software and a fix had been deployed.

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“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed,” said Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz on social media Friday morning. “We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website. We further recommend organizations ensure they’re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels. Our team is fully mobilized to ensure the security and stability of CrowdStrike customers.”

American Airlines, United and Delta asked the FAA for global ground stop on all flights, according to an alert from the FAA on Friday morning and, as of 6:25 a.m. ET, at least 540 flights in the U.S. have been cancelled.

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abcnews.go.com/US/american-airlines-issues-global-ground-stop-flights/story?id=112092372

Major airlines, media organizations, businesses and police forces around the world are currently being affected by a massive information technology glitch caused by a problem with Microsoft cloud computing services early Friday.

Flights have been grounded in several countries and stores and broadcasters in several countries went offline as the outage affected Windows PCs.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mass-cyber-outage-airports-businesses-broadcasters-crowdstrike-rcna162664

Australia is hit by massive Microsoft outage as major banks, businesses, Qantas, ABC and Foxtel are all struck by huge outages – and computers crash with the blue screen of death

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13650367/Microsoft-365-ABC-Foxtel-Commonwealth-Bank-NAB.html

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