The global outage, which is one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years, was caused by an update to an antivirus programme.
United Airlines employees wait by a departures monitor displaying a blue error screen, also known as the 'Blue Screen of Death' inside Terminal C in Newark International Airport, after United Airlines and other airlines grounded flights due to a worldwide tech outage caused by an update to Crowdstrike 's "Falcon Sensor" software which crashed Microsoft Windows systems, in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., July 19, 2024.
As it happened: IT outage hits businesses worldwide, disruption triggered by CrowdStrike software update Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, said the outage caused"a seizure to the automotive supply chain", while courts and jail bookings were delayed in California. In Europe, major airports including Berlin, which had suspended all flights earlier on Friday, said departures and arrivals were gradually resuming.
CrowdStrike's Kurtz said in a statement his teams were"fully mobilised" to help affected customers and"a fix has been deployed".
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