CrowdStrike-Microsoft Outage: The Biggest IT outage in History

CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage: massive Microsoft outage stopped computer systems across the world, grounding flights and crippling banks, stock exchanges, payment systems and emergency services.

The outage is possibly due to the failure of CrowdStrike falcon, a cybersecurity platform that provides security solutions for Microsoft windows.

Both Microsoft and CrowdStrike have ruled out claims of cyber attack and said that the outage took place due to a “recent update received in the product.”

In India the outage caused widespread descriptions in flight operations, payment systems and trading among other services. Flight delays were reported across airport, leading to long queues. The outage affected booking and the checking services for several airlines, including IndiGo, Akasa Airlines and SpiceJet .

Major Airline Disrupted

The outage affected check in systems at numerous airports across the country. This issue impacted airlines including Indigo, Akash air, SpiceJet, Air India, Vistara in the others leading to widespread flights delays and cancellation both domestically and internationally. Budget carrier IndiGo alone had to cancel approximately 200 flights.

Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport one of Europe’s busiest hubs, was affected by the global outage, “The outage has an impact on flights flying from and to Schiphol”a spokesperson said.

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In the US several measure airlines including American airlines, delta and the United, reportedly grounded all flights.

Flyers at Edinburgh airport in Britain were unable to use automated boarding pass scanners, and monitors at security displayed a message saying “server offline.”

Turkish Airlines was also experiencing problems with ticketing, check- in and reservation process due to a global technical issues in information system.

Berlin airport halted all flights due to a technical fault. The airport operator said in a post on social media that check- ins where delayed due to the error.

News Broadcasters Down

The outage also hit new services across the globe. Britain’s Sky News, one of the countries major television news channel, said that they were unable to broadcast Sky News have not been able to broadcast live TV this morning.

ABC News in Australia was also unable to broadcast news following the system failure. Australia was one of the first country to report the outage where it affected banks, telecoms, media outlets in the airlines.

In the United States emergency 911 services where disrupted in many parts of the United States and non emergency call centers where also not working due to the outage

Stock exchange is hit

By the outage payment systems were impacted all over the world including in India .

Operation of stock exchange in various countries were disrupted. Services at the London Stock Exchange were affected. Several brokerage firms also faced technical outages, including Nuvama, Edelweiss, Motilal Oswal. Traders reported disruption in their operations in India.

The global outage has even caused disruption in the IT operation of the Paris Olympic 2024.

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Health Services are also Affected

Health services are affected in many countries. A health booking system used by doctors in England has gone offline. Two hospitals in the Northern German cities of Luebeck and the Kiel have canceled elective operation schedule for today, news agency Reuters reported.

The central government taking cognizance of the cyber outage, stated that it is in discussions with Microsoft to resolve the issue. The ministry of Electronics and the Information Technology is likely to issue and advisory on the outage.

What says Microsoft?

Crowd strike in the Microsoft stated that they are aware of the issue and working to resolve it. Microsoft said that multiple services are “continuing to see improvements in availability” as the company’s mitigation action progress.