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Global IT Outage Disrupts Multiple Sectors

CosmicTaco · 2024-07-20T08:17:37.159476+05:30

- A massive IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike security update has disrupted companies worldwide, affecting airlines, financial services, and media groups. - Thousands of flights were canceled, hospital operations postponed, and some TV channels went off air, with millions of computers potentially needing fixes. - Services are slowly coming back online, but the unprecedented scale means full recovery could take days, with experts calling it the largest IT outage in history. - Financial services, transport, media, and healthcare sectors have reported significant disruptions, with some companies like JPMorgan and Sky News severely impacted. - CrowdStrike and Microsoft are working on a fix, but the incident highlights the fragility of global IT infrastructure. Source: Financial Times

A massive IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike security update has disrupted companies worldwide, affecting airlines, financial services, and media groups.
Thousands of flights were canceled, hospital operations postponed, and some TV channels went off air, with millions of computers potentially needing fixes.
Services are slowly coming back online, but the unprecedented scale means full recovery could take days, with experts calling it the largest IT outage in history.
Financial services, transport, media, and healthcare sectors have reported significant disruptions, with some companies like JPMorgan and Sky News severely impacted.
CrowdStrike and Microsoft are working on a fix, but the incident highlights the fragility of global IT infrastructure.

Source: Financial Times

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