WorldWide Communications Outage July 2024

This morning, just after midnight London time (if I understand the message traffic, correctly) there was a worldwide communications outage.

It affected Airlines, UK Railways, Hospitals, ATM's and Supermarkets, Banks, London Stock Exchange, 911 call centers, some TV and Radio broadcasters,

Apparently something incompatible, between Crowdstrike Antivirus and Micro$oft.

Affected almost all Western Countries, as well as Israel and Lebanon.

A test run, maybe?

rick1 wrote:A test run, maybe?

Looks like a $30 Billion dollar "oops"

At this rate, they won't have to take down our stuff.
We can do it for them, with an "oops"

On the other hand, it was a decent test of how to deal with such a failure.

Yeah this rises to the level of gross negligence on the part of crowdstrike.

An update should never make it out if alpha testing that is this screwed up.

They better hope their contracts with customers are incredibly well written as the costs are going to be astronomical when everything is tallied up. Literally every impacted machine had to be touched by a tech to undo the problem, then recovery could begin.

Yet another reason to be ready for systems to go offline without warning. Sigh.