Update 07/19: We’re seeing reports that updating a Windows PC or laptop can result in the device freezing after a restart and landing on a BSOD.
Update 07/19: It looks as though this outage is linked to Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm. In reports, Crowdstrike has confirmed that crashes on Windows-hosted devices linked to the ‘Falcon Sensor’ are causing the majority of these issues. This code update that was rolled out by Crowdstrike is bricking devices worldwide.
This morning, a monumental and global IT outage struck most of the world, with everything from banks to airlines and from cloud networking providers to gaming services being impacted. It seems as though it’s linked to Microsoft’s systems, but there’s a lot up in the air at present. What is known is that this widespread IT outage has wreaked havoc on the world.
Bringing Down The World
Microsoft has reported that services are being brought back online but many platforms are still feeling the impact of this global IT outage. Many companies around the world have reported degradation to their services or complete outages, including:
- American Airlines, who issued a global stop on all flights
- Sky News, whose platform went offline entirely
- London Stock Exchange, whose data feeds went haywire
- Telstra, who has reported widespread issues
Elsewhere, the likes of Visa, British Telecom, Xbox, AWS, Facebook, and Google were all reporting issues, with users being cast into disarray by the sudden disruption of this global IT outage. Some tech experts have surmised that this outage has been caused by ‘ancient’ infrastructure supporting far too many concurrent services, but the official root cause of the issue is yet to be determined by Microsoft.
This is the biggest global IT outage we’ve seen in several years, and the lasting damage is yet to be fully scoped out. We’ll update this story as we learn more.
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