Windows “Blue Screen of Death” Strikes Worldwide

Early Friday, businesses, hospitals, and even TV networks got hit with a worldwide Windows Blue Screen of Death message, rendering the effected computer useless.

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Worldwide. IT security consultant Troy Hunt called it “the largest IT outage in history,” saying, “basically what we were all worried about with Y2K, except it’s actually happened this time.”

George Kurtz, president and CEO of Crowdstrike, a modern antivirus platform, was quick to take responsibility for the issue, writing on X, (https://x.com/George_Kurtz/status/1814235001745027317) “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed.”

The outage also effected NBC News, leading them to make a special announcement during their Today morning program.

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