Airports, the NHS, rail companies and retailers have all been hit by a major global IT breakdown
, KLM and other major airlines have seen flights disrupted, while in the US American Airlines and United have grounded flights completely. More than 1,000 flights had been cancelled globally as of 10.30am.. Practices that use the affected IT systems have said they can do very little and are unable to function as normal, while patients have reported being unable to get prescriptions issued or access their medical history.
Calls to CrowdStrike’s technical support phone line are being met with a recorded message which said it was “aware of reports of crashes on Windows relating to the Falcon Sensor”. CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We…In a statement, Microsoft said: “We have been made aware of an issue impacting virtual machines running Windows, running the CrowdStrike Falcon agent, which may encounter a bug check and get stuck in a restarting state.
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