Chaos and Confusion: Tech Outage Causes Disruptions Worldwide Airlines, hospitals and people’s computers were affected after CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, sent out a flawed software update.

The CrowdStrike outage, which caused the federal government to close the Social Security Administration's offices, is also causing major problems for airlines and airports across the country ...

IT outages have been reported across the globe as airlines, airports, banks and media companies have suddenly experienced ongoing disruptions.

The outage came as cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike experienced a major disruption early Friday following an issue with a recent tech update.

Airports, hospitals, and banks said they were recovering after a failed software update delivered by the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to Microsoft’s Windows systems.

Businesses worldwide are reporting IT outages, including Windows "blue screen of death" errors on their computers, due to a CrowdStrike update.

CrowdStrike outage sparks global chaos with airline, bank and other disruptions Over 2,500 flights were canceled and more than 8,000 were delayed in the U.S.

The CrowdStrike outage, which caused the federal government to close the Social Security Administration's offices, is also causing major problems for airlines and airports across the country Friday.