CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage 'largest' in history? What caused it, when will it be fixed, risks — All you need to know

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Follow Microsoft Outage Live Updates hereIs this a cyberattack? How did the outage happen? Why is Microsoft in news? What is CrowdStike? What did the Indian government say on the IT outage? And why is the "blue screen of death" trending? When will the issue be fixed? And can we call it the “largest" IT outage in history? Here's all you need to know about the global outage on Friday.Cybersecurity researcher Troy Hunt said in a post on X, "I don't think it's too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history" He was quoted by CNBC as saying, "Ongoing tech disruption is set to be the largest IT outage in history." Meanwhile, " an opinion piece in Sky news.com read, “It's possible we are looking at the largest IT outage in history.""This is not a security incident or cyberattack," CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz clarified on Friday. He said there was "a defect found in a single content update for [Microsoft] Windows hosts".

Crowdstrike acknowledged the issue on its support page, attributing it to its "Falcon n sensor."The issue impacted computers running the Windows operating system and CrowdStrike software.Kurtz told NBC's Today Show in the US that the problem was down to a bug in a single update. As per the Guardian, he said there had been a "negative interaction" between the update and Microsoft's operating system, which had then caused computers to crash, sparking the global outage, which remains ongoing.The founder and chief executive of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike wrote on X, "Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted...The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed."The global tech outage was tied to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform and the software issue at