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Ryan Morrison

What is CrowdStrike and what do they have to do with the global internet outage?

CrowdStrike logo on a phone.

A global IT outage that has left flights unable to take off, banks unable to serve customers and emergency services unable to take emergency calls was caused by a few lines of code in software owned by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.

CrowdStrike proudly declares in its X profile "We Stop Breaches." The cybersecurity company offers threat intelligence and protection from cyber attacks to a range of large companies including Microsoft and many of the big airlines.

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