“A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike (CRWD.O), opens new tab affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday.
“”We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines,” it said in the blog.
“A software update by global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, one of the largest operators in the industry, triggered systems problems that grounded flights, forced broadcasters off air and left customers without access to services such as healthcare or banking.”
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