CrowdStrike outage: LAX, Los Angeles hospitals, courts, ports affected

A software update from CrowdStrike shut down much of the internet, affecting Los Angeles International Airport, local hospitals, courts and more.

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[baruchben-david]

Part of the problem is that we rely too much on a few enormous monopolies. As we see, a failure could result in millions of crashed systems, which crippled many different businesses. A bit of diversity would likely have softened this blow - maybe causing problems, but at least having some functionality through other systems.

[keitranvirgil]

and they want to make all the money digitally?

[tagamial]

My wife and son were on a flight to El Salvador and the plane actually turned around half way to land in Houston. They have been stuck since midnight this morning. They were told that they were guaranteed a spot in the morning.

[michelemarie]

This WORLD IS IN TROUBLE. Gonna get more bizarre

[Aegelis]

Mass Media 101: "...not the result of hacking or a cyber attack" means this was a result of hacking, a cyber attack.

[sookiegirl]

Courts were shutdown in most places as well🤦🏼‍♀️

[maryrizor]

Like my husband said from the beginning of Windows - Windows is the Virus

[CC-oyii]

Lmao my cyber security specialist says it’s a cyber attack and the company is just doing damage control.

[davidtran]

Oh boy that'll really help the tech companies own stock now...this whole week's been tanking

[michelemarie]

Here we Yah right, cuz we believe the news🤥

[manglesthecat]

And some want to change the currency to crypto. Relying completely on the internet and Electricity will be this nation's downfall.

[Berserker]

Was the server wiped with a cloth or something?

[momonie]

BEYOND SAD AND RIDICULOUS WHEN THERE’S NO BACKUP PLANS OMG 😱 BEYOND DANGEROUSLY

[OptimusPrinceps_Augustus]

Perhaps they could try unplugging their computers and then plugging them back in or something?

[jodyeades]

Who sold stock the dah before and made over a million? Do your job!

[abgzulkifli]

You still have time, take your time...

[smajin]

They should continue operations without the heavy use of modern internet. Like how they did before the 2000s.

[angelofjustice]

Those smart heads, software developers could be useful but also harmful for our society. They are to be suspected in any domestic issue. Need to follow then up, hold accountable and be disciplinary

[abgzulkifli]

Don't be evil learned, we are human not evil

[JoshuaVaughan-pisn]

Shocker the biggest thing thats being forced on us is broken and brought our lives to a screeching halt and just think society today is trying to force everything to require all this that's why I don't support digital and rely on transportation that only requires my self or other means I hate plans anyway I can't swim but would choose a boat before a plan and that's actually really sad to admit but that how little I trust those things 😂 physical media and physical human labour ain't looking half bad when the computers and servers to replace it all fails now is it 😂 the 90s is where technology should have ended just enough to have some entertainment but little enough to where everything didn't require constant server use and updates that can crash the entire system 🤦