8.5 million PCs impacted by rogue CrowdStrike patch

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8.5 million PCs impacted by rogue CrowdStrike patch
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The global tech outage caused by CrowdStrike impacted nearly 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft said at the weekend.

outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said at the weekend.

CrowdStrike has helped develop a solution that will help Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure accelerate a fix CrowdStrike has helped develop a solution that will help Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure accelerate a fix, Microsoft said, adding that it was working with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, sharing information about the effects Microsoft was seeing across the industry.

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