US transportation, police and hospital systems stricken by global CrowdStrike IT outage

US wakes up to Microsoft system collapse from software update that has crippled world IT systems

Thousands of air passengers were stranded across the US on Friday morning as a global IT outage grounded major domestic airlines and struck rail services, shipping and police emergency systems, as well as some hospital functions.

Microsoft’s Windows system was at the centre of technology hit by the outage, after it was disrupted by a faulty software update from the US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike that it uses.

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US wakes up to Microsoft system collapse from software update that has crippled world IT systems

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Thousands of air passengers were stranded across the US on Friday morning as a global IT outage grounded major domestic airlines and struck rail services, shipping and police emergency systems, as well as some hospital functions.
Microsoft’s Windows system was at the centre of technology hit by the outage, after it was disrupted by a faulty software update from the US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike that it uses. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian

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