Global IT outage affects hundreds of companies | Morning in America

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says a "defect" in its recent software update caused a global technology outage that's plaguing banks, 911 systems and other major companies Friday. NewsNation's Nick Smith discusses the companies affected overnight by the outage, which include Visa, At&t and Xbox.

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[JaeSwiftJamellaSwift]

This sounds too much like Leave the World Behind.

[LuisEstevez-og]

Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatics conducting a preliminary test of their systems.

[Dee-]

Hospitals being affected everywhere too. My company is down also.

[amt]

Someone at Crowdstrike..."what's this button for?" 🤣

[RickTheClipper]

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

[SandcastleDreams]

Has anybody lost USPS Tracking? Mine has been stuck since the 17th.

[naydeepolanco]

The Day "Down Detector" went down from so many many people checking which sites are down.

[beelikemizu]

Another congressional hearing probably...

[robertmoore]

So no Visa cards will work right now ?

[Citizen__X]

As a TD employee, I couldn’t be happier. Need the day off 😂

[maxcyhicks]

Say no to mandatory digital currency. This is a warning from Microsoft.

[jimschofield]

Awfully presumptive to assume the Boeing planes will all make it to their destinations.

[baronsamedi]

I'm with AT&T Internet and its still down

[Its_jordanyk]

I have AT&T and have no service and SOS

[indigosunset]

im on win10. i got no update. i assume this is only happening to win11

[LanceHayabusa]

weird, so corporate spyware just crippled corporations.

[ninerlives]

Don’t forget CrowdStrike is highly AI controlled..

[markoconnell]

CrowdStrike is now facing huge losses.

[voulathomacos-lagonas]

Athens INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT....HAS NO PROBLEMS ....SIMPLY going back to the traditional ticket, check in and dealing with " HIMAN BEINGS" NOT COMPUTERS...

[x-art]

Die hard 4 was a true story made in advance. Iykyk