Akshata Sharma
Share
Satya Nadella-led Microsoft Windows has suffered a major global outage, causing chaos around the world, with banking, railways, airlines, TV channels, and healthcare services were badly impacted.
Even IT operations of the Paris Olympics 2024, brokerages, including Nuvama, Edelweiss, Motilal Oswal, and the London Stock Exchange, have been affected by the outage.
US-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which saw its share price decline over 10%, admitted that the problem was caused by an update to its Falcon antivirus software, which is designed to protect Microsoft Windows devices from malicious attacks.
On the other hand, the tech giant said it is taking "mitigation action" to deal with "the lingering impact" of the outage.
"We're investigating an issue impacting users' ability to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services. We're continuing to reroute the affected traffic to healthy infrastructure," the tech giant.
Meanwhile, a Microsoft spokesperson said: "We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming".
Many airports and airlines, including United Airlines, IndiGo, SpiceJet, and Akasa, were affected.
The situation was worse for budget carrier IndiGo, which had to cancel around 200 flights.
Other airlines faced flight delays and cancellations both domestically and internationally.
According to CrowdStrike founder George Kurtz, the problems were caused by a "defect" in a "content update" for Microsoft Windows devices.
He also clarified that this was not a security incident or cyberattack.
"The issue has been identified, isolated, and a fix has been deployed," he said.
--Advertisement--
