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A glitch with Microsoft Windows on Friday reportedly hit global businesses and institutions, disrupting critical services — including airlines, banks, and stock exchanges — across the world.

Guardian

The massive IT outage canceled at least 500 US flights, affected operations at London's Stock Exchange, grounded Sky News, and impacted Europe's medical facilities.

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Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said that the outage had been caused by "a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts," adding it was neither a security incident nor a cyberattack.

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CrowdStrike's Chief Executive Officer George Kurtz said that the underlying issue — caused by an update to CrowdStrike's 'Falcon Sensor' — has been isolated, and a fix has been deployed.

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Meanwhile, Microsoft 365 said it was "working on rerouting the impacted traffic to alternate systems to alleviate impact" and is "observing a positive trend in service availability."

In its last earnings report, CrowdStrike said it had nearly 24K customers, indicating the number of individual endpoints could be enormous.

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Businesses and institutions across the world suffered severe disruptions of their services after an IT issue on Friday.

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Banks, airports and hospitals were just a fraction of those who reported outages and millions of people are believed to have been affected by the problem.

While the issue affected Microsoft 365 apps and services, George Kurtz, CEO of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, said his firm had been responsible, stating that the outage had been caused by "a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts."

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"This is not a security incident or cyberattack," Kurtz added. "The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed."

Meanwhile, Microsoft 365 said it was "working on rerouting the impacted traffic to alternate systems to alleviate impact in a more expedient fashion" and that it "observing a positive trend in service availability."

According to its last earnings report, CrowdStrike said it had nearly 24K customers, giving an indication of how many firms could be affected.

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