Several airlines, medical facilities, businesses and police forces around the world are currently being halted due to a global outage causing Microsoft-based computers to not function properly.
CrowdStrike — an American cybersecurity technology firm, said in a statement that the outage is not due to a cyberattack but a software issue that has been identified and a fix is currently in the works.
“We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website. We further recommend organizations ensure they’re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels. Our team is fully mobilized to ensure the security and stability of CrowdStrike customers,” Kurtz said.
“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted,” Kurtz said earlier Friday.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has also put out an alert to hospitals and law enforcement reporting that “multiple government agencies” have been affected.
Mass General Brigham in Boston, Massachusetts, cancelled all elective surgeries on Friday and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Avondale, Ohio, also reported issues.
Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport said there would be delays to passenger check-ins “because of a technical fault,” and Aena said “an incident in the computer system” could cause delays.
The Paris Olympics organizing committee told Reuters that the outage was slowing its operations, but its ticket sales remained unaffected. Meanwhile, in Britain, Manchester United delayed a ticket release scheduled for Friday, blaming problems with Microsoft.
Other global outages include the Berlin Airport in Germany, the London Stock Exchange, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Gatwick Airport in the United Kingdom.
“We’re investigating an issue impacting users ability to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services,” Microsoft said in a statement.
