Wednesday, February 19th, 2025

From airports, banks, hospitals to emergency services, everything is shut down… What happened that caused chaos in the whole world


New Delhi Microsoft users across the world, including India, faced massive disruptions in services due to a glitch in Windows. It affected airports, banks, hospitals and emergency services. Airlines operations were shut down. Bank servers crashed. On the internet disruption monitoring website ‘Downdetector’, users have reported disruptions in various services. Globally, US airlines had to cancel flights due to Microsoft cloud disruption. Work on airlines, railways and television stations in the United Kingdom was disrupted due to computer-related problems. Windows-based computers started shutting down suddenly.

Blue Screen of Death on Laptop, System

However, the company later reportedly said that its cloud service disruption in the Central American region has been resolved. The global cyber outage affecting TV channels, banks, hospitals, airports and emergency services is linked to cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. IT security firm CrowdStrike released a recorded phone message on Friday. It said that it is aware of reports of a crash related to its Falcon sensor on Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Due to this glitch, users were seeing ‘Blue Screen of Death’ messages on the screens of computers and laptops.

What did the company say?

The recorded message said, “Thank you for contacting CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows related to the Falcon sensor.” CrowdStrike is headquartered in Austin, Texas. It is a global security firm that provides advanced platforms for data security. According to the report, the CrowdStrike update on Friday caused a critical error in the Microsoft operating system, affecting millions of people worldwide.

presswire18 TimesMicrosoft Windows Outage: Microsoft Windows glitches, banks and airlines all over the world are shut down

What does CrowdStrike do?

CrowdStrike regularly updates its systems with the latest antivirus software. Cyber ​​experts say that due to poor updates by CrowdStrike, this cyber attack has occurred on every machine that has received it.

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