Microsoft Global Outage

[Acorn1]

All working fine here, anyone experienceing problems?

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/microsoft-outag...

[driverrob]

Extensive news coverage, but no mention of problems in China or Russia yet.

[mmm-five]

We've been alerted of some issues by the corporate network team, but I don't seem to be seeing anything particular as an end-user.

[5pen]

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Thread running already in NP&E

[Condi]

It's NOT a Microsoft outage.

It's a piece of software called Crowdstrike which is affecting customers using MS operating system.

[Zaichik]

ironically it is likely to impact organisations who take IT security seriously and will not have impacted organisations with poor or no IT security.

Probably terminal for Crowdstrike though.

[.:ian:.]

Affected my AU colleagues, but I had a lie in and didnt get any updates until after CS had pulled the update as far as I can see.

Luckily it didnt affect Linux or I`d be busy

[TownIdiot]

.:ian:. said:

Affected my AU colleagues, but I had a lie in and didnt get any updates until after CS had pulled the update as far as I can see.

Luckily it didnt affect Linux or I`d be busy

Is the broken bit working again now?

[Mr.Chips]

Sky are currently down. I’ve been trying to call them all day to “negotiate” a better deal, but just keep getting a recorded message.

[jonathan_roberts]

Our flight Vienna -> hamburg just cancelled.

[balham123]

major investment bank - nothing working properly

had a day popping out to the shops, long lunching etc

we have thousands of servers, all need manual intervention to bring back online

i'm worried i will be in all weekend when they finally get everything back online

[Tye Green]

Crowdstrike stock had dropped 12% in the 3 days before the problem

[silverfoxcc]

Sky set still showing no satellite signal ( Bracknell) even after the on/off/on action

Anybody ITK can give an update on what is happening?

[Hoofy]

Tye Green said:

Crowdstrike stock had dropped 12% in the 3 days before the problem

I noticed that.

"Let me short the stock before you run that update..."

[MitchT]

Hadn't heard of Crowdstrike until their name appeared on reports of today's chaos, and then I thought the name made them sound like a highly organised network of global terrorist hackers. I didn't realise they are actually a cyber security company, one which sponsors the Mercedes F1 team, no less, pictured here grappling with the blue screen of death today!

[M1K3]

I was in Schiphol airport earlier today, never have I seen so many cancelled and delayed flights.

Everything running normal for Emirates though (handy as that's who I fly with )

[_DJ_]

driverrob said:

Extensive news coverage, but no mention of problems in China or Russia yet.

Erm, is that because they're not very likely to use expensive American software that monitor everything that happens on a computer and sends the information back to the US?

[driverrob]

_DJ_ said:

driverrob said:

Extensive news coverage, but no mention of problems in China or Russia yet.

Erm, is that because they're not very likely to use expensive American software that monitor everything that happens on a computer and sends the information back to the US?

In my defence, I did post that as a knee-jerk reaction, immediately after I first heard of the problems being encountered this morning. No mention of MS or Windows to start with.

[_DJ_]

You posted about 5 hours after the incident. News articles were published much earlier in the day (8:30ish) that mentioned Crowdstrike Falcon agent issues on Windows PCs due to an update.

[M4cruiser]

Hoofy said:

Tye Green said:

Crowdstrike stock had dropped 12% in the 3 days before the problem

I noticed that.

"Let me short the stock before you run that update..."

^ Makes it look like an inside job.