CrowdStrike outage impacting Microsoft computers causes chaos for travelers and businesses

A major global tech service outage causes impacts from air travel to emergency response systems in hospitals across the country.

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[CygnusX-]

so this basically means that the world is literally run by tech corporations

[MoonDog]

So many industries that rely on one software company sounds extremely dangerous.

[adamsjay]

Olympus has fallen
London has fallen
Angel has fallen
Tech Services has fallen

[itsallgood]

Oh the Irony! Cloudstrike was supposed to stop this from happening through malicious actions and yet they seem to have caused it. Here in Australia many hospitals and radiology services were taken offline. Radiology in some hospitals was taken offline, fortunately doctors in my wife's one could still see the images and were able to call clinicians with results. But these computers were using Cloudstrike because the can't afford to go down, it is a matter of life and death! This appears to have been a failed update of Cloudstrike (not Microsoft) most major companies do staged updates (even on critical updates) to make sure they are not causing Blue Screens Of Death (BSOD). This is a major screwup by Cloudstrike no matter how you look at it. While many good employees at CS are working on this it is important to note that someone seriously stuffed up here. Regardless of who is blamed for this updated must ALWAYS be staged. With systems in place to detect problems. What the heck happened! We are owed an honest answer!

[kadiansimone]

Shocking how so many essential businesses have no contingency plan for events like these.

[part]

I don't think they tested the patch thoroughly

[Xidification]

Crowdstrike: Good news everyone, Outage was not caused by cyber attack or hack!
Everyone: So it was solely caused by your incompetence? [edit: spelling]

[GrimGalore]

On the next episode of "The World Is Falling Apart"...

[aabbzzz]

If it was an attack would the even tell us?

[Thrawn]

If I install Go Go Gadget Island Adventure on my computer and it bricks my pc, I don't say I have a Microsoft outage. This is on CrowdStrike, not Microsoft.

[shipwreck]

I don't buy his comments that it was a software update. I think it was a hack breach and he doesn't want to say anything about it because it would make the company look bad.

[ExpeditionNomadicAdventures]

Crowdstrike Incompetency or Cyberattack, either way, reveals flaws in the Internet's cyber security. I wonder what Apple's CEO is doing.

[warrenoutley]

And do you think the media would tell us the truth even if they knew it?

[manslayerdbzgt]

I know The sad thing is looks like they had no backups of their systems they could have just reverted the backup and been back up with no problems if it was because an update they should have server backups and computer backups too that's kind of sad sounds like their IT team isn't doing their job

[cecthesocialexperimentpran]

This feels terminator skynet judgement day

[curtisdonnelly]

Microsoft fixed the xbox hacking problem

[jemoli]

This is what happens when you try to go all cloud based, they do it to stick recurrent paid plans, but when a link in the chain fails it all goes down, something that would not happen if it was all local like it was before.

[erichansen]

What did blackrock tell crowdstrike to do?

[crotchbeam]

Crowstrike is owned by Blackrock, and Blackrock is using dei hiring practices. Makes you wonder who they hired to do the update.

[therealtelles]

Microsoft: Its not an attack my bad
New reporter: well lets just say it might be