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Microsoft says it estimates that 8.5m computers around the world were disabled by the global IT outage.

It’s the first time a figure has been put on the incident and suggests it could be the worst cyber event in history.

The glitch came from a security company called CrowdStrike which sent out a corrupted software update to its huge number of customers.

Microsoft, which is helping customers recover said in a blog post: "We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices."

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s kind of what I thinking. There’s countless ways this costs money. And not an insignificant amount either.

Also, I work IT and have been in vacation. So sad I am missing all this!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Something I didn't think about but has since come to my attention (group chat is getting spicy) is that there are a lot of mid level IT folks on salary who are getting the absolute dog shit worked out of them right now without seeing an extra dime. So the costs are beyond monetary.