A massive computer outage stemming from a software update from CrowdStrike is creating problems around the world. NBC’s Brian Cheung and Christine Romans join TODAY with details about the company and what’s being impacted.
BREAKING: WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich is found guilty of espionage by Russian court and sentenced to 16 years after a trial the U.S. condemned as a shamMajor U.S. airlines have grounded flights and there are global delays. United, American and Delta have ordered a "global ground stop,"Microsoft said it had fixed the issue, but problems still persist and blue error screens are appearing on public screens across the U.S. and beyond.
"Many of the customers are rebooting the system, and it’s coming up, and it’ll be operational because we fixed it on our end," he said."We’re just trying to sort out where the negative interaction was," he said of the faulty update that affected Windows PCs.The Microsoft cloud computing outages that left airports, shops and broadcasters without services will not be easily fixed, tech experts have warned.
The"train and bus service is unaffected," Metropolitan Transportation Authority said this morning in a statement. When Patricia Sweeney arrived at gate 133 of Tokyo's Haneda Airport, her American Airlines flight bound for New York was nowhere to be found. It was first delayed by an hour, then canceled.
In Britain, grocery chain Waitrose put up signs in some of its outlets warning customers it was only accepting cash. The British National Health Service said the outage was causing"disruption in the majority of GP practices," referring to the general practitioners who act as a first point of contact to access most health services in the U.K.
This morning's enormous tech outage was caused, in part, by a"storage incident" that impacted a number of Microsoft's Azure cloud services, which powers everything from banks to airport handling systems.Microsoft said another issue is the"CrowdStrike Falcon agent," a cybersecurity platform used by businesses globally that is separate from Microsoft, that was causing the"blue screen of death," on PCs running the Windows operating system.
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