CrowdStrike Major Outage Grounding All Planes In US

    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/19/crowdstrike-suffers-major-outage-affecting-businesses-around-the-world.html

    Posted by Xtianus21

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    1. More than likely this is a Russian hacking operation aimed at harming the US economy

    2. Could be a play like FSLY was a few years back where an outage that affected Amazon, Google and other major players. FSLY ended the day UP 10%.

    3. Not just US, Europe is having major outages as well and probably entire world.

    4. Crowdstrike; headquarters in Texas for that Big Protection (outsourced on upwork for max roi)

    5. What could go wrong, we have already been bleeding red last 2 days ![img](emote|t5_2th52|4260)

    6. MahBenPhelps on

      They’re cooked. Look what happened to Fastly when it happened to them. They’re not going to recover from this.

    7. I couldn’t buy a packet of chips in rural Australia because of this. I was really hungry.

    8. Wonko-D-Sane on

      This reminds me of the time I bricked the all high school  computer labs in one go when I broke the Remote Desktop/keylogger trash malware ( timbuktu or whatever crap it was called)  installed to “supervise” the students…

      I can’t believe shit like this is allowed on computers in the name of security

    9. HardlyDecent on

      And in the end, just before the worldwide riots and destruction of the planet once called Earth, it was not a terrorist attack, nor pandemic, nor civil war, nor wayward meteor, nor even a rogue AI. No, it was Larry in IT. See he hadn’t slept well the night before, having had a big argument with his wife and gone to sleep with the issue unresolved. Groggy, he filled his coffee mug and rushed out the door to work at CrowdStrike, where he managed the servers. In his foggy state, however, he neglected to grab the lid to his mug. On one of Larry’s many early trips to the bathroom (he had a growing prostate that he was as of yet unaware), he tripped on the leg of a rolling chair (most likely left in the way by Kyle…fucking Kyle) and in his stumbling Larry managed to dowse one of the main servers in coffee shorting out that server, as well as power to the entire facility.

      The lesson here children, is to just make your wife happy.

    10. Me and two dozen coworkers are getting an hour long break at the start of our shift. I work at a distribution center. This will add 30 minutes to an hour for up to several hundred employees.

    11. obsessedsoul on

      An email was sent earlier this morning about this…they say it wasn’t a cyberattack it was an update that disabled many windows PCs and servers, but I’m not buying it.

    12. Legitimate-Source-61 on

      80bn market cap of Crowdstrike… do you think the tsunami of claims for loss of income are going to hurt them? Do they have good insurance?

      Remindme! In 1 year

    13. AndrewHolyMan on

      How did QA not catch this? Why roll out a new version to production before putting in on dev/test?

    14. Comfortable-Low-3391 on

      Stop using windows folks! Computers are too business critical to rely on Microsoft products.

    15. getwhirleddotcom on

      Everyone’s gonna gloss over the fact that OP edited the title to something not found anywhere in the article?

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