Major IT outages are hitting industries across the world, with airlines, shops and healthcare affected.
Australia’s home affairs ministry and American Airlines have both said the outage appeared to be related to an issue at global cyber-security firm Crowdstrike.Crowdstrike says a “content update” for its Windows hosts was to blame
“This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed,” the firm says.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has said, “We’re aware of an issue affecting Windows devices due to an update from a third-party software platform. We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming.”
(Excerpts : BBC)
