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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 Information Technology (IT) outage canceled over 2.5K US flights, affected operations at London's Stock Exchange, knocked Sky News off the air, and impacted Europe's medical facilities.

USA Today

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.

Crowdstrike.Com

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.

NDTV

Impacts also included local television news not airing in the US as well as the cancelation of non-urgent surgeries.

The Associated Press

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

BBC News

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The massive Information Technology (IT) outage canceled over 500 US flights, affected operations at London's Stock Exchange, knocked Sky News off the air, and impacted Europe's medical facilities.

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