The world is slowly recovering from what some are calling the largest IT outage in history. It was caused by a defect in an update delivered for Microsoft Windows users by cyber security company CrowdStrike. Airlines, banks and hospitals and were among the worst-hit.
CrowdStrike's CEO has apologised for the massive disruption, saying a fix has been issued but he's admitted it could take"some time" for all systems to be operating again.It's been called the largest IT outage in history because of its global impact.
Because CrowdStrike has such a significant share of the global market, the outage ended up affecting millions of computer systems around the world. Last night, the federal government called an emergency meeting with industry representatives including Qantas, Virgin Australia, the major supermarkets, Telstra and Optus and CrowdStrike.
Police in New South Wales say triple zero emergency calls continued to work but some police information distribution systems have been impacted and it was a similar situation for the police in Victoria. Its IT systems started to operate again today with the airline saying it planned to operate its scheduled flights.In the United States, the problem was so bad that American Airlines, United and Delta asked the Federal Aviation Administration for a ground stop which means no flights are allowed to take-off.
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