July 20, 2024 3:07 PM IST
Microsoft Global Outage: CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor threat-monitoring software sent an update which resulted in Microsoft crash.
Summary
Track LIVE updates at Hindustan Times on Global IT crash
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: Passengers wait at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, after airlines grounded flights due to a worldwide tech outage caused by an update to CrowdStrike’s “Falcon Sensor” software which crashed Microsoft Windows systems.
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: The global Microsoft outage affected several sectors in the world including airlines, banks, TV channels and financial institutions as one of the biggest IT crashes took place in recent years owing to an update to an antivirus program. The London Stock Exchange experienced a global technical issue, Sky News was off air for some time, 911 services were disrupted in the US and American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines and others carriers were forced to ground flights. …Read More
Read more: Microsoft outage: Sectors that were impacted in India and those which were not
The issue came to fore when CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor threat-monitoring software sent an update which resulted in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to crash. CrowdStrike founder and CEO George Kurtz issued an apology and said that it found that the system update that was sent had a software bug.
He said, “That update had a software bug in it and caused an issue with the Microsoft operating system. We identified this very quickly and remediated the issue.”
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July 20, 2024 1:16 PM IST
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: Indian stock exchanges and clearing corporations have no impact of Microsoft outrage
The stock market exchanges released a joint statement on Saturday of all exchanges on the global outrage of Microsoft systems.
The Indian exchanges have stated that all stock market exchanges in India were not much affected by the outrage and functioned without any impact.
“On July 19, 2024, there was a global outage of Microsoft Systems. This outage has been reported to have caused disruptions across various sectors globally. In India, all Exchanges and Clearing Corporations functioned without any impact” said a joint statement by Indian stock exchanges.
July 20, 2024 12:47 PM IST
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: Paris Olympics says operations ‘running normally’
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: The Paris Olympics organising committee said that its operations are “now running normally” after a global IT outage which affected some of its computer servers.
“All of Paris 2024’s operations are now running normally, following this morning’s global IT issue, which had temporarily affected a limited number of our own IT services,” it said.
July 20, 2024 12:14 PM IST
Civil aviation minister’s big update on airport, flight operations in India, a day after massive Microsoft global outage
K Rammohan Naidu said since 3am, airline systems across airports have started working normally. Flight operations are going smoothly now, he added. Read more
July 20, 2024 12:00 PM IST
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: CrowdStrike CEO panics, begins to choke when asked how single update caused such chaos. Viral video
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: George Kurtz, the CEO of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, looked visibly nervous and choked on his words when asked how a single update could cause so much disruption across the world. Read here
July 20, 2024 11:34 AM IST
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: Apple users, can you suffer global outage like Microsoft? ‘It is controlled…’
Apple’s ecosystem protects 2.2 billion iOS devices from outage, says analyst. CrowdStrike CEO confirms Linux and Mac users were not impacted. Read more
July 20, 2024 11:20 AM IST
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: US federal agencies still impacted
US federal agencies are still affected by the massive technology outage after a flawed software update by CrowdStrike disrupted global computer networks. Some staff at the FBI and Department of Justice were met with a Windows error screen and Justice Department officials were working on a fix but didn’t know when that would come.
July 20, 2024 10:48 AM IST
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: Which industries were affected by global IT outage?
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: Finance, airlines and health were the major sectors impacted by the global outage. Bankers at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Nomura Holdings Inc. and Bank of America Corp. could not login, employees across US federal agencies also faced a Windows error screen. Doctors at the UK’s National Health Service also couldn’t access scans.
July 20, 2024 10:16 AM IST
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: SpiceJet says issue resolved
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: SpiceJet said, “We are happy to inform you that the issue has been resolved now and communication regarding the flight disruption is being sent on a real-time basis on the registered contact details via SMS, Email, and IVR calling. We appreciate your understanding in this regard.”
July 20, 2024 9:55 AM IST
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: CrowdStrike sees worst week on Wall Street since November 2022
Microsoft Global Outage Live Updates: CrowdStrike is facing its worst week since November 2022 due to a major IT outage that has impacted businesses worldwide. The company’s hares fell by 9%, contributing to a nearly 16% decline for the week.