On 19 July 2024, American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike distributed a faulty update to its security software that caused widespread problems with computers running Microsoft Windows. As a result, roughly 8.5 million systems crashed and were unable to properly restart[1] in what has been called the largest outage in the history of information technology[2] and "historic in scale".[3] The outage
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