A major IT outage reportedly linked to the U.S. cybersecurity company Crowdstrike has caused chaos for businesses across the world.The global software issue has forced many banks, airlines and broadcasters to go offline, and caused many Windows computers to crash suddenly.
In a post on its website, Crowdstrike said: "Crowdstrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows related to the Falcon Sensor."
Microsoft has warned of a "severe degradation" to its services, but added that a number of its products had been restored.
Among the services still impacted is Microsoft Teams, on which users may be unable to access group chats. Microsoft Purview, Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Fabric, and PowerBI are all still affected, the company said.
Commenting on the outages, Microsoft said: "We're continuing to progress on our mitigation efforts for the affected Microsoft 365 apps and services. We still expect users to see remediation as we address residual impact."
Yep. Got a call after midnight MST and still on at 3am. BSOD loop. Only way to fix it is to boot the computer into safe mode and remove the bad driver. I work for a hospital that has bitlocker too so we are looking at thousands of computer that need to be physically touched to fix this since it can't be automated. Expect banking, finance, hospitals, airlines and government sites to be offline for a couple days.