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Benedict Collins

CrowdStrike outlines just what went wrong with its update — as many systems around the world are now back up

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On 19 July, CrowdStrike pushed an update to Windows systems that caused a blue-screen-of-death (BSOD) across millions of devices running the OS across the world, resulting in widespread outages across banking, airports, and health services.

The company fixed the issue the same day, and in a LinkedIn post, said of the approximately 8.5 million Windows devices thought to be impacted, "a significant number" are now back online and operational.

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