Live: Cyber security company CrowdStrike linked to global IT outage
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Computer security company CrowdStrike is linked to a major IT outage affecting banks, airports, supermarkets and businesses across Australia and the world. Follow live.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…

  • boaratio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    5 months ago

    CrowdStrike: It’s Friday, let’s throw it over the wall to production. See you all on Monday!

        • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          With all the aircraft on the ground, it was probably a noticeable change. Unfortunately, those people are still going to end up flying at some point, so the reduction in CO2 output on Friday will just be made up for over the next few days.

      • lagomorphlecture@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        5 months ago

        Definitely not small, our website is down so we can’t do any business and we’re a huge company. Multiply that by all the companies that are down, lost time on projects, time to get caught up once it’s fixed, it’ll be a huge number in the end.

        • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
          101·
          5 months ago

          GDP is typically stated by the year. One or two days lost, even if it was 100% of the GDP for those days, would still be less than 1% of GDP for the year.

        • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Does your web server run windows? Or is it dependent on some systems that run Windows? I would hope nobody’s actually running a web server on Windows these days.

    • Jesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      They did it on Thursday. All of SFO was BSODed for me when I got off a plane at SFO Thursday night.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Was it actually pushed on Friday, or was it a Thursday night (US central / pacific time) push? The fact that this comment is from 9 hours ago suggests that the problem existed by the time work started on Friday, so I wouldn’t count it as a Friday push. (Still, too many pushes happen at a time that’s still technically Thursday on the US west coast, but is already mid-day Friday in Asia).