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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I don't think that's what's happening here. As far as I know it's an issue with a driver installed on the computers, not with anything trying to reach out to an external server. If that were the case you'd expect it to fail to boot any time you don't have an Internet connection.

Windows is bad but it's not that bad yet.

Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Looks like the laptops are able to be recovered with a bit of finagling, so fortunately they haven't bricked everything.

And yeah staged updates or even just... some testing? Not sure how this one slipped through.

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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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...