FT Weekend – Global IT outage throws travel, payment and health into chaos
The Financial Times Weekend looks at the global IT crash and how it affected the world. One of the biggest-ever IT outages has disrupted companies across the world, from airlines to financial services and media groups, after what should have been a routine software update cascaded into crisis. The outage has been blamed on a security update from US group CrowdStrike, which caused a problem with Microsoft’s Windows. PCs and servers are affected, suggesting that millions of computers may need to be fixed for the issue to be resolved.
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