It’s the first time that a number has been put on the glitch that is still causing problems around the world.

Microsoft says it estimates that 8.5m computers around the world were disabled by the global IT outage.

It’s the first time a figure has been put on the incident and suggests it could be the worst cyber event in history.

The glitch came from a security company called CrowdStrike which sent out a corrupted software update to its huge number of customers.

Microsoft, which is helping customers recover said in a blog post: “We currently estimate that CrowdStrike’s update affected 8.5 million Windows devices.”

  • NegativeNull@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    4 months ago

    The downstream effects are likely much much greater. If an auth server/DB server/API server/etc (for example) got taken down, the failure cascades

    • teejay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      4 months ago

      The idea that any such servers would be running windows… shudder

      • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        In the corpo that I work in, we had about 3000 servers down, plus probably twice as many workstations including laptops of remote workers. Yeah, fun!