Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 12:28pm on 19 Jul 2024,Friday Tech Today
A major global IT outage, caused by a CrowdStrike Falcon update glitch, disrupted Microsoft cloud services, impacting flights, banks, payment systems, and emergency services across multiple countries including India, Australia, Germany, and the US. Airlines, stock exchanges, and news broadcasters faced significant disruptions, with many services still recovering. Microsoft and CrowdStrike have deployed fixes, but residual issues persist. Indian government officials are in discussions with Microsoft to mitigate further impact. The outage has been classified as a critical incident by CERT-In.
