‘A fix has been deployed,’ says firm at center of global IT outage

A massive IT outage caused major disruption across numerous industries late on Thursday and into Friday, with airlines, retail, banking, healthcare systems, and even broadcasters among those affected. 

It later emerged that the outage was due to a defective software update rolled out by Texas-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike for its Microsoft Windows hosts. 

In a post on social media at 5:45 a.m. ET on Friday, CrowdStrike chief George Kurtz said his company is “actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” adding, “This is not a security incident or cyberattack.”

By Trevor Mogg.

Full story at Yahoo News.