Crowdstrike Defect Launches Blue Screen of Death World-Wide

Businesses, hospitals, government agencies, and airlines are now dealing with the consequences of a massive IT failure after Microsoft experienced a massive meltdown entangling millions in the worldwide web.

Hundreds of thousands of computers running on Windows were knocked offline or stuck on so-called ‘blue screens of death.’

Banks, airlines, television networks, trains and healthcare systems reported widespread outages starting around 2am ET.

The chaos was due to a defect in a single content update by Crowdstrike, a US-based cybersecurity firm used by Microsoft, the company shared at 5:30am ET.