by Andreas Wailzer, LifeSite News:
According to reports, the large-scale digital disruption on July 19 was caused by a bug in a software update of CrowdStrike, a U.S.-based security software company. The outage grounded flights and disrupted banking and healthcare services.
A global cyber outage has caused chaos worldwide, grounding flights and disrupting banking and healthcare services.
According to media reports, the large-scale digital disruption on July 19 was caused by a bug in a software update of CrowdStrike, a U.S.-based security software company. The bug affected computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system, while computers using Linux and MacOS were unaffected.
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Many airlines around the world had to cancel or delay thousands of flights, including in Australia, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, Hong Kong, and India.
Millions of computers were reportedly affected by the bug in CrowdStrike’s virus scanner, Falcon, which caused Microsoft Windows to crash and show a blue screen, colloquially known as the “Blue Screen of Death.”
Health services were also affected around the world, with the Department of Health in Belfast, Northern Ireland, for instance, reporting that practices were unable to access laboratory test results, patient records, or routine prescriptions. Radiotherapy services were also affected, but emergency services were able to continue, according to the BBC.
Financial service companies and banks across the world warned customers of disruption, and people worldwide reported problems with transactions.
One trader told Reuters: “We are having the mother of all global market outages.”
Tech billionaire Elon Musk echoed the sentiment, describing the incident as the “biggest IT fail ever.”
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz acknowledged that their software caused the problem but stressed that it was not caused by a cyber-attack. In a statement published on X, he said, “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts.”
