CrowdStrike Caused By Microsoft Outage: Blue Screen of Death On Computer
On July 19, 2024, at roughly 2:02 GMT, American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike released a defective update to its reputed security software, effectively crashing an estimated 8.5 million computers that use Microsoft Windows and leaving them incapable of properly restarting.
The crash was termed “the largest outage in the history of information technology” and surprisingly “historic in scale,” since it disrupted businesses, governments, and the world at large. Among the industries affected were airlines, airports, banks, hotels, hospitals, manufacturing, stock markets, broadcasting, and a variety of others.
Furthermore, governmental services, including emergency services and websites, were thoroughly disrupted, and the overall monetary damage around the world was measu...