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Massive Crowdstrike / Microsoft outage hits flights, banks, stock exchanges, broadcasters
- By Elite CIO
Jul 19, 2024
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Massive Crowdstrike / Microsoft outage hits flights, banks, stock exchanges, broadcasters
A Mojor IT outage affecting systems globally, including in India, Australia, Germany and other countries was reported today (19th July 24)
1. Widespread outages in Microsoft cloud services have affected serveral countries.
2. Flight grounded, emergency services hit, health sector disrupted
3. Outage hits flight operations, trading and other services in India as well.
A massive Microsoft outage unleashed havoc on computer systems across the world, grounding flights and crippling banks, stock exchanges, payment systems and emergency services. Microsoft, in a tweet approximately 6 hours after the outage was first reported, said that "Multiple services are continuing to see improvements in availability as our mitigation actions progress".
The outage is possibly due to the failure of Crowdstrike Falcon, a cybersecurity platform that provides security solution for Microsoft Windows. The disruptions continued hours after Microsoft said it was fixing the issue.
Both Microsoft and CrowdStrike have ruled out claims of cyber attack and said that the outage took place due to a "recent update received in the product"