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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
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All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It's all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We'll see if that changes over the weekend...

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[–] richtellyard@lemmy.world 96 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is going to be a Big Deal for a whole lot of people. I don't know all the companies and industries that use Crowdstrike but I might guess it will result in airline delays, banking outages, and hospital computer systems failing. Hopefully nobody gets hurt because of it.

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Big chunk of New Zealands banks apparently run it, cos 3 of the big ones can't do credit card transactions right now

[–] oderus@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was mayhem at PakNSave a bit ago.

[–] emmanuel_car@kbin.run 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In my experience it’s always mayhem at PakNSave.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 5 months ago

If anything, it's probably calmed P'n'S down a bit...

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Several 911 systems were affected or completely down too