Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues

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Click here to see the summaryA widespread technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks offline and media outlets off air on Friday in a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world and highlighted dependence on software from a handful of providers. “Due to the worldwide Microsoft outage, all Maryland courts, offices, and facilities will be closed to the public today but will remain open for emergency matters,” the judiciary said in a news release. “While things are still very uncertain, we do not anticipate a major macroeconomic or financial market impact at this stage,” Jennifer McKeown, chief global economist at Capital Economics, said in a written comment. At the Narita International Airport near Tokyo, passengers of low-cost carrier Jetstar Japan formed long lines waiting at the airline’s departure counter, where boarding had to be processed manually due to a system failure. At Hong Kong’s airport, hundreds of travellers were queuing for manual check-in around the counters of budget airline HK Express, which said that its global e-commerce system was affected by Microsoft’s service outage. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the company was working to fix problems created for Windows users of its tools by a recent update in a post on the social media platform X. — Saved 94% of original text.

technocrit , 5 hours ago

Microsoft is an insecure monopolistic grift. Hopefully it takes down capitalism with it.

CalcProgrammer1 , 4 hours ago

I don’t disagree, but today the blame lies with CrowdStrike, not Windows. As much as I hate defending Windows.

Cube6392 , 3 hours ago

I’ve seen a weird number of people blaming Microsoft for this today, and an even weirder number of people making fun of people saying this isn’t on Microsoft

mobius_slip , 3 hours ago

Microsoft chose to work with these people and accepted their faulty input. How is it not Microsoft’s fault?

chloyster OP , 2 hours ago

Well crowdstrike sent out an automatic update. Sure I won’t say that Microsoft is 0% to blame. They contract with these people for their product. But many people work with many tools and companies that turn out not reliable. It’s unfortunately a fact of life. This one turned out more catastrophic, and I doubt crowdstrike is going to be a well reputable company ever again tbh.

Sure Microsoft has some involvement in the actions that got to this point. But I would argue crowdstrike is 99% to blame

orca , 2 hours ago

It’s what happens when you put too many eggs in one basket. You see a similar house of cards when you look at package managers in the software dev space. Single point of failure.

The reality though is that Windows computers not running the CrowdStrike agent were not affected. This one falls on CS, but there is a much larger problem at play. Also, auto-updates are a plague, especially on a kernel level. That’s just insanity.

IrritableOcelot , 1 hour ago

Yeah the issue is that so many companies were at the intersection of two monopolies – either one failing has catastrophic effects, and there’s no backup plan.

orca , 1 hour ago

A backup plan probably involves using some other company/service that can suffer the same fate 😭

Cube6392 , 25 minutes ago

Most of who got hit though was people who contracted with crowd strike directly though. Its not like Microsoft pushed crowdstrike onto people.