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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Martyn Landi and Miriam Burrell

CrowdStrike says global IT outage could take 'some time to recover from' but not 'cyber attack'

CrowdStrike’s chief executive has warned it may take “some time” for tech systems to be fully restored after a global IT meltdown on Friday, but stressed the issue was not a “cyber attack”.

The boss of the cybersecurity firm at the centre of the worldwide outage said he is “deeply sorry” after holidays were scuppered amid 143 flight cancellations at airports across the UK and patients struggled to book GP appointments online across England.

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