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Microsoft IT outage latest: Airports, businesses and banks including Sky News experiencing issues worldwide

2 years ago by onlinepersona to c/security

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A software update has resulted in worldwide IT chaos, causing cancelled flights, healthcare disruption and potential payroll problems. The firm responsible has apologised, but an industry expert warns it could take weeks to fix "blue screens of death" and endless loops.

Caused by security firm CrowdStrike that issued an update.

v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU 7 points 2 years ago

It sounds like it would be a bad day to have a heart attack. From YC

There's some doctors and other emergency room staff mentioning it on /r/medicine too.

Several hours ago, I was watching the comments move really fast on /r/crowdstrike, /r/sysadmin and YC. I made a comment on technology@lemmy.world, but quickly removed it because I didn't want to create or add to any hysteria. It sounds like a mostly simple fix, but some organizations have thousands of computers. (I saw someone claim on reddit they had 70,000 endpoints they had to fix)

It seems like the largest failure that's happened in IT.

edit: I mixed /r/medicine with /r/sysadmin in the last paragraph of my comment, it's fixed now.

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onlinepersona 2 points 2 years ago

With deaths involved and not just delayed, I wonder if the repercussions will be greater. I fear they will not.

Most likely hospitals and other infrastructure are critically underfunded and are running terribly outdated systems with no money for upgrades or restructuring to move to more secure systems. They could sue, but even if they win, it might not return enough money to do what needs to be done in order to minimize the risk of future such events.

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0x0 4 points 2 years ago

The outage is due to an update on anti-virus software from Crowdstrike. Yeah it's easy to pin it on Microsoft and they're not exempt from blame but av software runs with high privileges so it's gonna have serious consequences if it hits the fan. As it has.

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