Global Tech Meltdown: Faulty CrowdStrike Update Blamed for Widespread Outages

Touching on what some have classified as a “digital doomsday,” yesterday, there were system crashes in many places as a result of the update that the leader of cybersecurity CrowdStrike made incorrectly. As intended for Windows machines, the update failed dismally leading to global outages which affected firms and government organizations at large. Though it is still under investigation about what nature of this bug was exactly, reports suggest that it caused massive and crucial system failures. This brought down numerous institutions’ daily operations after their Window’s computers and virtual machines crashed. Allegedly, finance, healthcare and transport were hit hardest among all sectors. It was not just production that suffered from it. There was also a double fall in Microsoft stocks as well CrowdStrike with the latter experiencing a pre-market crash of up to 12%. The event also impacted communication channels notably London Stock Exchange had no ability to post live updates on its website. Luckily, CrowdStrike has been quick to respond and contain any further damage from occurring. The wrong update has been admitted by the firm which isolated it as well as deployed a fix for it as well; however recovery will take time; thus, ramifications are yet unknown.

A Lesson Learned?

This occurrence reminds one how much one depends on cyber security software and what could happen if anything goes wrong there.