Microsoft: Outages caused by ‘storage incident’ and Crowdstrike cybersecurity update
This morning’s enormous tech outage was caused, in part, by a “storage incident” that impacted a number of Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, which powers everything from banks to airport handling systems.
The issue has been mitigated, Microsoft said in a statement, but the company is still “in the process of validating recovery,” of the affected services.
Microsoft said another issue is the “CrowdStrike Falcon agent,” a cybersecurity platform used by businesses globally that is separate from Microsoft, that was causing the “blue screen of death,” on PCs running the Windows operating system.
“We can confirm the affected update has been pulled by CrowdStrike,” it said.
CrowdStrike said in a statement on Reddit, that its engineering team had reverted the software updates affecting the issue, and outlined a temporary technical workaround.
