'Completely unprecedented' outage causes havoc with IT systems across globe — as it happened
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A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…

  • lagomorphlectureEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Definitely not small, our website is down so we can’t do any business and we’re a huge company. Multiply that by all the companies that are down, lost time on projects, time to get caught up once it’s fixed, it’ll be a huge number in the end.

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      101·
      2 months ago

      GDP is typically stated by the year. One or two days lost, even if it was 100% of the GDP for those days, would still be less than 1% of GDP for the year.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Does your web server run windows? Or is it dependent on some systems that run Windows? I would hope nobody’s actually running a web server on Windows these days.