A botched update to the Crowdstrike Falcon system caused a blue screen error on millions of computers worldwide, affecting sectors including healthcare, airlines, banks, and causing considerable IT outages. The problem has now been identified and a fix deployed, Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz said. Despite the outage issue not being a cyberattack, clinicians and patients are facing issues in accessing critical systems.
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