Largest IT outage in history’ hits Microsoft Windows and causes global chaos - July 18, 2024

July 18, 2024

"A global IT failure  has caused chaos at airports, banks, healthcare services and businesses around the world after a faulty software update triggered “the largest IT outage in history”.

Microsoft’s Windows operating system was at the centre of the outage, after it was hit by a faulty software update from the US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike that left large numbers of workers facing an error screen labelled the “blue screen of death” as their computers failed to start. Experts said the recovery could take days because every affected PC may have to be fixed manually."

President of CrowdStrike, Twitter Statement - https://x.com/George_Kurtz/status/1814235001745027317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1814235001745027317%7Ctwgr%5Ee6de042ec7d2308bd213059df5ebfbec9339a099%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prmoment.com%2Fopinion%2Fcrowdstrike-ceo-breaks-silence-on-it-outage-but-is-it-good-pr

Airport Video: https://youtu.be/HPYIlTl28E4

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Source and Full Article: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/19/microsoft-windows-pcs-outage-blue-screen-of-death and https://apnews.com/live/internet-global-outage-crowdstrike-microsoft-downtime#00000190-cb61-db1f-aff3-cfe149530000