A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday (Jul 20).
A technician works on an information display near United Airlines gates at Chicago O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Jul 19, 2024, after a faulty CrowdStrike update caused a major internet outage for computers running Microsoft Windows. that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday .
"We currently estimate that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than 1 per cent of all Windows machines," it said in the blog."While the percentage was small, the broad economic and societal impacts reflect the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that run many critical services," Microsoft said in its blog post.
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 Platform, sharing information about the effects Microsoft was seeing across the industry. The air travel industry was recovering on Saturday from the outage that caused thousands of flights to be cancelled, leaving passengers stranded or grappling with hours of delays as airports and airlines were caught up in the IT outage.
Delta Air Lines, one of the hardest-hit airlines, said that as of 10am EDT on Saturday, more than 600 flights had been cancelled, adding that additional cancellations were expected.We know it's a hassle to switch browsers but we want your experience with CNA to be fast, secure and the best it can possibly be.
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