A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks offline and media outlets off air (Richard Drew/AP)
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says a “significant number” of the millions of computers that crashed on Friday, causing global disruptions, are back in operation as its customers and regulators await a more detailed explanation of what went wrong.
A defective software update sent by CrowdStrike to its customers disrupted airlines, banks, hospitals and other critical services on Friday, affecting about 8.5 million machines running Microsoft’s Windows operating system.
