CrowdStrike Resolves Issue Causing Global Tech Outage : Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has deployed a fix for an issue that triggered a major tech outage that affected industries ranging from airlines to banking to healthcare worldwide, the company’s CEO said on Friday.
Microsoft said separately it had fixed the underlying cause for the outage of its 365 apps and services including Teams and OneDrive, but residual impact was affecting some services.
“This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated, and a fix has been deployed,” stated CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz in a post on the social media platform X.
The issue stemmed from a defect found in a single content update for Microsoft Windows hosts, Kurtz said, adding Mac and Linux hosts were not impacted by the issue.
Shares of CrowdStrike tumbled nearly 12 per cent in premarket trading, while Microsoft was down 1.4 per cent.
A massive IT outage was disrupting operations at companies across multiple industries on Friday, with major airlines halting flights, some broadcasters off-air and sectors ranging from banking to healthcare hit by system problems.
The travel industry was among the hardest hit with airports around the world reporting delays and issues with their system network, while banks and financial institutions from Australia and India to South Africa warned clients about disruptions to their services.
