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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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...

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[–] 66 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yep, stuck at the airport currently. All flights grounded. All major grocery store chains and banks also impacted. Bad day to be a crowdstrike employee!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    My flight was canceled. Luckily that was a partner airline. My actual airline rebooked me on a direct flight. Leaves 3 hours later and arrives earlier. Lower carbon footprint. So, except that I'm standing in queue so someone can inspect my documents it's basically a win for me. 😆

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