Microsoft said Saturday it estimates that worldwide about 8.5 million computers were disabled by the outage caused by an update from the Texas based cyber security company, CrowdStrike on Friday.

The global outage caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike on Friday affected some 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft said in a blog post.

Microsoft believes 8.5 million devices were affected by CrowdStrike update outage. News. By Luke Hughes published 22 July 2024 ...

Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent. We can bring you some more from Microsoft's latest statement now. The 8.5 million Windows devices affected by the IT outage accounts for less than 1% of all machines ...

(Reuters) - A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday.

A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday (Jul 20).

Businesses are slowly recovering after a massive IT meltdown, but experts warn of a second wave of disruption.

Microsoft says about 8.5 million Windows devices were affected by the glitch Thousands of flights were cancelled and banking, healthcare and payment systems were affected by the mass outage ...