
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.