US transportation, police and hospital systems stricken by global CrowdStrike IT outage
by Ed Pilkington and Lauren Aratani in New York from Technology | The Guardian on (#6PB51)
US wakes up to Microsoft system collapse from software update that has crippled world IT systems
Thousands of air passengers were stranded across the US on Friday morning and police and hospital systems were left struggling as a global IT outage grounded major domestic airlines and struck rail services, shipping and police emergency systems, as well as some hospital functions.
Technology systems using both Microsoft's Windows and CrowdStrike cybersecurity software were hit by the outage, after a CrowdStrike update installed faulty software in computers running Windows.
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