Global computer outage: Impacts still visible in the United States

Hibapress

Public and private sector businesses in the United States continue to be impacted by the global IT outage, 24 hours after it was triggered by a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

Although many businesses appear to have recovered, the problem is not yet fully resolved.

The outage was caused by a faulty software update sent to computers running Microsoft Windows by CrowdStrike, causing airline flights to be canceled, financial services to be disrupted and hospital systems to go offline.

Several U.S. government facilities have reported being unable to operate because they lack access to several Microsoft 360 applications.

Election and voting registration databases in Arizona, South Dakota, Texas and Washington state were also affected by the outage, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

There were at least 895 canceled flights in the United States on Saturday, far fewer than the more than 3,200 cancellations reported on Friday.

In an update Friday evening, CrowdStrike said it was “actively working with customers affected” by the outage.

The company’s CEO said the computer problem causing the global outage had been identified and a fix had been deployed.

“The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide comprehensive and ongoing updates on our website,” he said.

Many sectors of activity were disrupted across the world on Friday due to the computer outage.

The outage affected transport services, businesses, banks and telephone networks in several countries.