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”.