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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I work in a data center

I lost count

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I work in a datacenter, but no Windows. I slept so well.

Though a couple years back some ransomware that also impacted Linux ran through, but I got to sleep well because it only bit people with easily guessed root passwords. It bit a lot of other departments at the company though.

This time even the Windows folks were spared, because CrowdStrike wasn't the solution they infested themselves with (they use other providers, who I fully expect to screw up the same way one day).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What was Dracula doing in your data centre?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Surely Dracula doesn't use windows.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Because he's Dracula. He's twelve million years old.

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