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CrowdStrike Crash Forces Manual Reboot of Affected Computers (1)

July 19, 2024, 7:53 PM UTC
Evan Gorelick
Evan Gorelick

All Windows computers affected by a global IT failure on Friday will need to be manually rebooted, CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., the cybersecurity company responsible for the outage, said in a statement on Friday.

“It was a content bug, or update, that we sent out and we’ve identified, and that we’ve rolled back,” Chief Executive Officer George Kurtz added in an interview with CNBC. He apologized to customers, and said some systems would take a few hours to come back online while others would take longer.

WATCH: Microsoft says the underlying cause of the global IT outage has been fixed while CrowdStrike also said the fault had been identified and a fix deployed. Source: Bloomberg

“There could be some manual steps involved, and we’re looking ...

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