'Completely unprecedented' outage causes havoc with IT systems across globe — as it happened
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A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.

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…

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    Yeah, most large orgs have a key server, or back up to AD. If you don’t have that, and no recovery key, you’re fucked and that data is gone.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        I’ll give you one guess.

        (That’s why when I was in charge of that stuff at one company, I had that recovery key printed out and kept separately in a lockbox.)