Microsoft says it estimates that 8.5m computers around the world were disabled by the global IT outage. It’s the first time that a number has been put on the incident, which is still causing ...

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.

8.5 million devices were confirmed affected by the CrowdStrike outage, but Microsoft says that's only a subset.

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.

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.

July 20 (Reuters) - A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike , opens new tab affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft , opens new tab devices ...

Experts are warning of a risk of more disruption as cyber-criminals seek to take advantage of Friday's global IT outage The boss of CrowdStrike, the cyber-security firm responsible, warned of "bad ...