Global IT Outage Disrupts Multiple Sectors

• A massive IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike security update has disrupted companies worldwide, affecting airlines, financial services, and media groups.
• Thousands of flights were canceled, hospital operations postponed, and some TV channels went off air, with millions of computers potentially needing fixes.
• Services are slowly coming back online, but the unprecedented scale means full recovery could take days, with experts calling it the largest IT outage in history.
• Financial services, transport, media, and healthcare sectors have reported significant disruptions, with some companies like JPMorgan and Sky News severely impacted.
• CrowdStrike and Microsoft are working on a fix, but the incident highlights the fragility of global IT infrastructure.

Source: Financial Times