Oh, was it supposed to be Y2K24?
Today is one of those days that will go down in history as an unmitigated IT disaster, with CrowdStrike responsible for taking systems down all over the globe. We know airports, hospitals and the usual critical infrastructure suspects have been affected, but CrowdStrike is disrupting daily life in some unexpected ways, too., 298 of the Fortune 500, 43 out of 50 US states and eight of the top 10 food and beverage, auto, financial services and tech companies all use CrowdStrike products.
Take, for example, in the city of London, where taxi drivers haven't been able to reliably take card payments. One driver speaking to the BBCaround 95 percent of his customers use cards, and that he's already had to turn people away who didn't have cash.that their systems were down too, and those that have managed to get them back online have been left with partially-working machines, no ability to print tickets to track orders and no way to take online orders for pickup.
Depending on how quickly things are fixed, this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix could also be affected - at least for one racing outfit. Mercedes' F1 team, of whom CrowdStrike is athat their systems have been disrupted by the outage, making it unclear whether the team would be ready for the first practice later today.Firms skip security reviews of major app updates about half the time
Even the news anchors at Bloomberg Radio have had their lives disrupted, with one saying this morning that the elevator in their building wasn't working due to the CrowdStrike patchpocalypse.Azure VMs ruined by CrowdStrike patchpocalypse? Microsoft has recovery tipsUpdated
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