A technology issue that started late Thursday sparked a widespread outage impacting airports, businesses and broadcasters across the globe.
The head of CrowdStrike, the company responsible for an update that took millions of people offline, said Friday the massive global outage was not a cyberattack nor a security incident.
CrowdStrike acknowledged late Thursday it was investigating the issue. For those still trying to recover from the massive outage, CrowdStrike engineers released an urgent fix to their software glitch behind the crash.
For those still trying to recover from a massive technology outage, CrowdStrike engineers released a quick fix to their software glitch behind the crash. Scott McGrew reports.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz posted on X “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. This is not a security incident or a cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolate and a fix has been deployed.”
In the Bay Area, San Francisco International Airport confirmed it was experiencing an airport-wide …