Blue Screen Of Disaster

[msconduct]

 While most of the world is peacefully slumbering there's been a major global outage thanks to Crowdstrike messing something up. Here in NZ we're awake, hungry and out of petrol as banking is down, supermarkets have had to shut down, and petrol is cash only. Oh yes, and flights have been affected too. And TV. I, meanwhile, am sitting at home thrilled that I don't work for Crowdstrike. What I'd give for a camera in their IT department right now.    

Edit: wow, now I feel even sorrier for sysadmins worldwide than I do for the hapless Crowdstrike idiot who pushed an insufficiently tested change to production on a Friday to the entire world. Some sysadmins out there are faced with fixing thousands of machines by hand. It's basically Y2K without anyone having done anything to mitigate it. If you have CRWD stock, I suggest that you get rid of it as quickly as you can, as I seriously doubt that Crowdstrike is going to survive this.      

Comments

[kaishin108]

OMG that is really bad. I don't have that or Microsoft on this computer. I see it is affecting MS too from what I just read. Yikes!

[msconduct]

Yes, it's affecting computers running Windows, but only ones which also have Crowdstrike, which is a corporate thing. It's the worst computer outage I've ever seen.

[kaishin108]

That is horrible! And how sloppy of them is my thought.

[meowmensteen]

My work's internal website had some notice about the outage, but it doesn't seem to be affecting our day to day functions.

[annaserene]

I was quite happy and fortunate to be hanging out in Germany at the time, without any flights or travel.

What a disaster. I'm kind of astonished it even happened, since it was so avoidable.
The grave global consequences are a bit eye-opening as well.