Across the world, critical businesses and services including airlines, hospitals, train networks and TV stations, are being disrupted by a global tech outage affecting Microsoft users.
In many countries, flights have been grounded, workers couldn’t access their systems and, in some cases, customers haven’t been able to make card payments in stores.
A series outages rippled across the globe as information displays, login systems and broadcasting networks went dark.
The problem affecting the majority of services was caused by a flawed update by CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity firm, whose systems are designed to protect users from hackers.
Microsoft said on Friday that it was aware of an issue affecting machines running “CrowdStrike Falcon.”
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