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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (14 children)

crowdstrike sent a corrupt file with a software update for windows servers. this caused a blue screen of death on all the windows servers globally for crowdstrike clients causing that blue screen of death. even people in my company. luckily i shut off my computer at the end of the day and missed the update. It's not an OTA fix. they have to go into every data center and manually fix all the computer servers. some of these severs have encryption. I see a very big lawsuit coming...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

they have to go into every data center and manually fix all the computer servers.

Jesus christ, you would think that (a) the company would have safeguards in place and (b) businesses using the product would do better due diligence. Goes to show thwre are no grown ups in the room inside these massive corporations that rule every aspect of our lives.

I'm calling it now. In the future there will be some software update for your electric car, and due to some jackass, millions of cars will end up getting bricked in the middle of the road where they have to manually be rebooted.

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