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.”

    • hydrashok@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      152·
      4 months ago

      Tell me you’ve never administered at scale without telling me you’ve never administered at scale.

    • magikmw@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      4 months ago

      Bruh, disk encryption is not optional in many environments and dealing with unbootable LUKS Linux is pretty much on par with an unbootable Bitlocker Windows machine.