'Completely unprecedented' outage causes havoc with IT systems across globe — as it happened
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A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…

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    4 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.

    The ABC is experiencing a major network outage, along with several other media outlets.

    Crowd-sourced website Downdetector is listing outages for Foxtel, National Australia Bank and Bendigo Bank.

    Follow our live blog as we bring you the latest updates.

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