It was stated as the worst IT Outages in history!

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A massive technology failure halted airlines, hospitals, brokerage firms, and IT companies.

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There were blue screens across all airlines offices, and hospitals across many countries.

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It was not a security incident or a cyber attack, there was an issue with the crowdstrike patch which was deployed in a Windows machine.

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Also, only Microsoft Windows machines were impacted, there was no impact on MAC or Linux machines.

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Apple iOS 18 New Features Revealed

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Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz stated that his company is working towards the fix, and have updated their customers.

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Microsoft also stated that the issue was from a third-party software Crowdstrike.

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Texas-based cybersecurity giant Crowdstrike fell 13% in pre-market on July 19.

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The outage also resulted in Microsoft, the stocks fell 2% on July 19.

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