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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by rxxrc@lemmy.ml 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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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (18 children)

Stop running production services on M$. There is a better backend OS.

[–] dan@upvote.au 31 points 5 months ago (13 children)

The issue was caused by a third-party vendor, though. A similar issue could have happened on other OSes too. There's relatively intrusive endpoint security systems for MacOS and Linux too.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 21 points 5 months ago (12 children)

That's the annoying thing here. Everyone, particularly Lemmy where everyone runs Linux and FOSS, thinks this is a Microsoft/Windows issue. It's not, it's a Crowdstrike issue.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 5 months ago

Many news sources said it's a "Microsoft update", so it's understandable that people are confused.

Also, there was an Azure outage yesterday.

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