How tech update crashed the world… Microsoft & Crowdstrike chaos explained and it could happen again

People across the world have been hit by mayhem today with a global IT outage seeing NHS appointment chaos, mass train and flight cancellations - and it could last days.

Major airports, airlines, railways and supermarkets have been hit by the suspected CrowdStrike issue that saw Microsoft services crash worldwide.

Television channels, banks, GPs and supermarkets around the world have been rocked by the chaos - as schools all over Britain break up for the summer holidays today.

Meanwhile, schoolcomms - a communication app used by over 3,000 schools - says it is among the many companies affected by the outage.

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[titzalinabumscrew]

And they want us to trust a digital online financial system. C’mon really

[edwinodus]

Crowdstrike didnt test the update on their own systems first?

[RobElmahdy]

Is it just me or do updates never fix problems, just create new problems to fix?

[LittleEvilGenius]

As someone who dealt with this today, the solution was simple but very manual.
Boot into safemode, delete a specific file then reboot
It gets a lot harder when in a corporate environment something like bitlocker is installed as every device has a unique bitlocker code.
The main issue is that none of this can realistically be done remotely and has to have someone on the device

[jnkn]

What a name for a security company, sounds more like a forewarning

[RickTheClipper]

For ultimate security, do not switch Your computer on, dead computers never get infected by malware!
Good job

[jabbadabbajew]

Billy Gates preparing you for the future.

[eyesodd]

Remember kids, a cashless society is for YOUR benefit 🙄

[Katgirl]

None of our systems with nhs worked and it’s insane how unstable these systems are

[trapset]

All this Technology is crap.
It was easier in the 80s with cash and the yellow pages 😂

[dariusp]

Crowdstrike is done. What colosal mistake

[qasim]

Penny for the thoughts of the manager at crowdstrike who signed off on the update, and the engineers who created the update 😅 Doubt they’ll ever get a job in tech again

[paulianas]

After all the high tech infra, we still go back to manual paper system.

[moose]

A cyber attach from a cyber security company. What happened? Crowdstrike obviously didn't test this update version on a test system before releasing it to the world. shameful.

[maxfrere]

Bill gates what surprise wake up people look what's going on around you 🙄

[ToucanTrains]

Really shows how much power one company has

[claytonburke]

The failure is depending upon products from a single company running global systems. there own system caused this problem
Imagine all currency and identity being victimized by an attack globe would be pushed bk to 1800’s

[TwoBassed]

This is why having a purely digital currency is a bad idea!

[maicolombia]

I got to worry more about the people “protecting” the system than those attacking it. That shows clearly the issue with cyber security we have. Not the attacks but the overstimulated devs trying to justify their job by doing constant changes making systems more and more overcomplicated and harder and harder to access.

[dillinger]

Crowdstrike? How ironic. Not 'the Russians' for once 😂