CrowdStrike says 'bug' caused worldwide outage

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 25, 2024 5:33 pm

WASHINGTON, D.C. — CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company that caused a global computer outage last week, on Wednesday said that the breakdown stemmed from a flaw in its test software.

In an incident report, the company said the glitch was pushed out to millions of Windows computers and that the company will change the way it handles such updates in the future.

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