CrowdStrike chief ‘deeply sorry’ for global outage chaos and warns fix may take ‘some time’

According to FlightAware, more than 1,629 flights have been cancelled around the world today with 18,892 delayed
CrowdStrike chief ‘deeply sorry’ for global outage chaos and warns fix may take ‘some time’

Check in desks at Ryanair start to build in Dublin Airport Terminal 1 as a major Cyber problem effects many airlines and and companies around the world. Picture: Collins Photos

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike is “actively working” to fix a “defect” in an update for Microsoft Windows users which sparked a global IT outage, the company’s chief executive has said.

CrowdStrike chief executive George Kurtz said Mac and Linux users were not impacted by the fault and it was “not a security incident or cyber attack”.

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